seizing your space, speaking your truth (18 November 2016)

Betty Goodwin, Memory of the Body, 1990

Betty Goodwin, Note Two, 1974

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

- Margaret Atwood

Betty Goodwin, Moving Towards Fire, 1983

I've learned quite a lot over the years by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning. 

- Margaret Atwood

Should is a futile word.  It's about what didn't happen.  It belongs in a parallel universe.  It belongs in another dimension of space.

- Margaret Atwood

Betty Goodwin's notebook

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

- Margaret Atwood

Betty Goodwin, Animal Series - Il y a certainement quelqu'un qui m'a tué, 1986

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

- Margaret Atwood

Betty Goodwin, Figure & Chair 6/9, 1992-94