Women of God Can Never Be Like Women of the World Quote
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On the Isle where I come from…
Is how most of the poems begin in this little volume of power. Why God is a Woman is a social satire that strikes deep at the patriarchy. The setting is an imagined island governed by women. On the island, all women look like Angelina Jolie and men are beautiful angels that suffer from vagina envy. Masculine traits like forcefulness, greed, and acrimony are shortcomings. The male temperament is questioned: men lack patience and self-control, and are quick to anger, so they cannot exist trusted with ability. The isle isn't perfect, simply by transposing the roles of men and women, Nin Andrews has created a scathing commentary on the accepted social construction of the patriarchy.
Why God is a Woman is written in a form of poetry chosen prose poetry. I am a recent convert to prose poetry—finally finding a form of poetry that speaks to me. If y'all're used to reading novels, you might open up a volume of prose poetry and be pleasantly surprised to detect only half of the folio used. Prose poetry is written in paragraph form rather than verse, but it lacks the cohesive narrative structure of a novel or brusque story. Prose poetry feels more manic, and breathless. Information technology also likes to become fancy with language and imagery, so it's more than verse than prose, but (I think) more accessible than other forms of poetry.
Beyond construction, this book—regardless of how yous experience nearly poetry—is just good. It would be a groovy pairing with books like The Handmaid's Tale, The Power, or Red Clocks. Popular books that deal with ability dynamics between men and women. Dystopias/utopias that amplify the contentious battle between the matriarchy and the patriarchy. Information technology's timely.
Nin Andrews asks us to bend our heed and imagine a different kind of globe. A world with different social mores and virtues. A world where femininity is desired, and masculinity is a weakness.
Read these quotes and then read the book. I'm not kidding—it'll bring yous closer to your inner warrior goddess!
15 Quotes from Why God Is A Woman
On Ability
"On the isle where I come from women rule. They run the country, control the wealth, and make up one's mind who will do what, why, and when."
"A man is meant to exercise physical labor and menial jobs like paving roads, sweeping floors, and cleaning latrines, for this is the work God designed for Island man. If God had wanted men to do function piece of work, he would have made them less muscular, less angry, less cute, less eager for sex and war."
"The worth of a homo was an ongoing Island debate."
"On the Island where I come from the law holds men responsible for all unwanted pregnancies. A homo who denies paternity of his ain son will be exiled. A human who denies paternity of his girl can have his balls removed."
"In one story, the Island men are said to be the concluding living descendants of the angels. Diddled from heaven in a moment of God'south wrath, the winged men landed on the Island where they were rescued and nursed back to wellness past Isle women. For this reason, they are forever in the Isle women's debt."
"A country that celebrates greed is a country that celebrates death, the instructor proclaimed, non but of people and organized religion and ethics, merely too of our earth's oceans, forests, and animals. The boys shuddered. How tin can men be so evil? They wondered. They were then taught how they could abound up to exist good and empathetic men who would willingly sacrifice their own wishes for power and glory so that others, specially the Island women and children, might exist served rather than oppressed. In this fashion, the teacher said, all Islanders will live happily and peacefully ever later."
"On the Island where I come from a hardworking adult female is most admired. A hardworking adult female is an Island archetype. It is said that a hardworking woman is both master and slave, boss and lackey, hunter and hunted, goddess and lady."
On Sexuality
"Pop are the revealing blouses left unbuttoned to brandish the male chest and abdominal muscles and the traditional Island tattoo of a native flowering vine that begins at the belly button and twines beneath the belt where the male flower blooms."
"Like all proper Island boys, I knew I had to remain a virgin. I had to continue my reputation as clean every bit freshly bleached linen."
"On the Island where I come up from vagina envy is the near common psychological disorder."
On Temperament
"The women had little organized religion in the male person work ethic. Every bit my female parent explained information technology, men lack patience, the cardinal to nifty work."
"For the Island men, unlike the Island women, lack cocky-control."
"Anger, he said, is unbecoming of a proper Island boy."
"The men, it is said, will do anything to please if you lot give them the right treats. A good meal frequently works only fine. Simply almost will practice a lot for a bit of praise, and anything for a round of thunderous applause."
"On the Island where I come up from everyone knows it was Adam who ate the apple in the Garden of Eden. The snake had goose egg to practice with it. Adam didn't even apologize. Instead he grabbed the apple tree as soon every bit he idea God wasn't looking and fleck into it greedily, the juice running down his chin."
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