The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that … and it won’t be what we expect. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
There are more clocks than ever – clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second – but they all seem to matter less. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
In each medium – popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively – the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master’s in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say ‘I do’ is where the story ends, but for artists, it’s where the story just starts to get interesting. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson’s forte. In her novels, ‘Anywhere but Here,’ ‘The Lost Father’ and ‘A Regular Guy,’ Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
