/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10550154]

are you able to name three women that influenced your life more than others?

pic unrelated. i wonder if this will work without explosions of misogyny & pic related-antisemitism.

[Anonymous No.10550261]

my mom
my sister
a spanish hooker named emma

[Anonymous No.10550273]

>>10550154
Babushka Rosa
Gertrude Stein
that one weird lady my mom is friends with and she comes over sometimes and I like to watch her interactions with my family as they try to figure out what to make of her clearly autismo husband

[Anonymous No.10550284]

>>10550154
This is a tough one.

>Fleming Rutledge (though I think of her as misguided now)
>Valerie Solanas (description of men hit a little too close to home for me, even if it isn't true of all men.... put me in a funk for days)
>Ayn Rand (had some friend that was into her back in high school and we ended up having several discussions about morality that Really Made Me Think)

[Anonymous No.10550286]

I haven't read much Simone Weil but still, something about her has subtly but profoundly found an echo inside me.

[Anonymous No.10550298]

>>10550154
My Mom
Grandma Veronika
This girl I was friend with in Kindergarten

[Anonymous No.10550320]

>>10550154
Emma Goldman
Rachel Carson
Mom

[Anonymous No.10550326]

>>10550154
>i wonder if this will work without explosions of misogyny & pic related-antisemitism.
le poisoning le well

[Anonymous No.10550334]

>>10550154
mom
Godmother
lit teacher from high school

[Anonymous No.10550344]

>>10550154
My mother
My grandmothers

[Anonymous No.10550351]

>>10550154
my mother
my grandmother
mary, mother of god

[Anonymous No.10550427]

>>10550154
Xena
Buttercup
Probably my aunt

[Anonymous No.10550433]

>>10550154
Anscombe
Weil
Dickinson

[Anonymous No.10550445]

>My Mom

[Anonymous No.10550478]

>>10550154
In my personal life certainly, but I think you mean writers. I haven't got three.
The only woman for which I would use the word influence is Theresa of Avila.

[Anonymous No.10550517]

>>10550154
Utena
Sailor Mercury
Virginia Woolf

[Anonymous No.10550937]

>>10550154
>my mom

[Anonymous No.10551566]

>>10550154
My mother, Simon De Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf. If my mother doesn't count, then Tamora Pierce. She was my favourite author as a kid. Her heroines were role models for me.

[Anonymous No.10551577]

>>10550517

>Sailor Mercury
You wanna be friends, anon

[Anonymous No.10551598]

>>10550154
lois tyson who basically wrote beginners guide to critical theory

my grandma, just because

i dont know a third. maybe rand just for being an absolute madwoman.

i really havent read much from women. what women show masculine ideals?

[Anonymous No.10551904]

>>10550433
Nice. For me Eva Brann over Weil, however.

[Anonymous No.10551930]

>>10550154
my ex, my mom and my ex’s best friend

please fucking cut off two fingers for me precious

[Anonymous No.10551987]

My mother
My grandmother
My first girlfriend

These three had a tremendous influence on my life, probably more than any writer ever can, male or female.

[Anonymous No.10552297]

>>10550154
>my mom, by raising me to hate society and be codependent on her borderline self, then break out on my own and embrace freedom in reaction
>my oneitis, who is so much a reflection of me in her own autism that I've learned more than I ever could through therapy just by studying her
>my milf boss b/c she gives me that paper and motivates me to do good by looking damn fine

[Anonymous No.10552313]

>>10550154

Oscar Wilde
Somerset Maugham
Evelyn Waugh

[Anonymous No.10552499]

>my mother
>my wife if i ever have one
>my daughters if i have them??

Also
>woman influencing men intellectually
lmao dude

[Anonymous No.10552519]

>>10550286
She is the Patron Saint of Outsiders after all

[Anonymous No.10552553]

>>10551598
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "masculine ideals"? Do you just mean women who do not focus primarily on gender related stuff?

[Anonymous No.10552559]

>>10550154
Do you want only positive influences, or ones that also caused lingering harm and negative influence?

Positive:
>My ma
>My highschool art teacher
>My counsellor after I got off the psych ward

Negative:
>Patient in the psych ward, incidentally lesbian feminist, drove a different patient to suicide, thanks for the PTSD
>Patient in the psych ward, the Name-Sharer and the Cruel, the feminist's little lackey
>Psychiatric Occupational Therapist, I don't even know her deal, probably been working with difficult people too long, convinced me I was crazier than I was

Both:
>Ma (+)
>Counsellor (+)
>Feminist lesbian who drove someone to suicide in front of the rest of the psych ward (-)

[Anonymous No.10552560]

>>10552553

[Anonymous No.10552566]

>>10552560
Doesn't sound like a bad approach desu

[Anonymous No.10552581]

Nice to see some love for Weil. I would choose her, St Teresa of Avila, and O'Connor

[Anonymous No.10552591]

Speaking strictly of prominent artists
>Toni Morrison
>Joanna Newsom
>Hildegaard of Bingem

Shoutouts to my mom, my sister, Lilli, Emma, Saint Theodora, and the lunch lady i see everyday at university

[Anonymous No.10552592]

>>10550326
>le poisoning le well
Pay no attention to the Jew behind the curtain.

[Anonymous No.10552602]

>>10552566
This is essentially Carnegie's approach and /lit/ heavily reproaches him for it.

[Anonymous No.10552719]

>>10552602
What's wrong with the pursuit of understanding for its own sake instead of being driven by ego? Why would you want your path to be so motivated by the (potentially more limited) worldview of a potential audience?

[Anonymous No.10552753]

>>10550433
Oh baby! Just swap Murdoch for Weil.
>five minutes into Mass and chill, when she slides you her treatise On Intention ...

[Anonymous No.10552787]

Mom, cousin, Riley Reid

[Anonymous No.10552832]

>>10550154
For writers:

Anais Nin
Alice Munro
Camille Paglia
Ursula Franklin
Leena Krohn
Elizabeth Hand

In life: yes.

[Anonymous No.10552840]

And of course Ursula K. Le Guin

[Anonymous No.10552852]

>>10552753
>when you five minutes into affliction and chill and she gives you her absolute unmixed attention

[Anonymous No.10552856]

Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
María
...

I failed

[Anonymous No.10552861]

>>10552852
Kek

[Anonymous No.10552879]

anscombe, woolf, janice raymond

[Anonymous No.10552886]

>>10552559
>Negative:
>>Patient in the psych ward, incidentally lesbian feminist, drove a different patient to suicide, thanks for the PTSD
>>Patient in the psych ward, the Name-Sharer and the Cruel, the feminist's little lackey
>>Psychiatric Occupational Therapist, I don't even know her deal, probably been working with difficult people too long, convinced me I was crazier than I was
>Both:
>>Ma (+)
>>Counsellor (+)
>>Feminist lesbian who drove someone to suicide in front of the rest of the psych ward (-)
Uhhh.. story time?

[Anonymous No.10552905]

>>10552560
>want to impress the results of the life-long work you have done on your heart and mind onto history so that future like-minded people do not have to go through certain useless intellectual and moral struggles you had to undergo in coming to certain conclusions, and instead just get the best parts of it distilled for them and learn from it more quickly
>you want future people to stand on your shoulders, even to surpass you but still at least be helped by your work and influenced by you
>you want ideas you think are good and worthy and valid and helpful for humanity to help future people and current humanity as well as much as possible
>"lol men just want to be influential, how vain of them, i just want to understand things for myself, fuck any sense of community and love for humanity"
so this... this is the power ... of having a cunt...

[Anonymous No.10552917]

>>10552905
>i just want to understand things for myself, fuck any sense of community and love for humanity

do you know who the person in that picture is you fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.10552922]

>>10552905
Of course it's natural to hope to contribute to society, I just think this is better accomplished by the pursuit of understanding rather than seeking influence/fame directly

[Anonymous No.10552923]

>>10552905
Here's a brand new brainlet meme I just found

[Anonymous No.10552939]

Senior English Teacher's wife, she died the last week of my last year of high school and watching someone so unflappable break the way he did after waking up next to her corpse shook me bad.

High School Ex, we still talk about everything and nothing and I love our discussions about trashy literature even if I'm not gonna bone.

No love for Mary Shelly? I mean I get that a lot of her involvement in her own work is debated but still surprised not to see her up here once.