Solo Trip, 2011
I cannot stop thinking about a sentence I read a few weeks ago.
"Women live longer than men because they really haven't been living."It was something Diane Keaton's mother noted in one of her journals. She read it in a Tom Robbins novel.
I know it was fiction, so why am I so irked? All I keep thinking is what ridiculous crap.
Denise: i think there must have been a piece missing in that quote. How about: "Women live longer than men because they really haven't been living... as carelessly"
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether her mother wrote it because she agreed or found it annoying, something to rebel against.Couldn't disagree more and I understand why you're irked.
ReplyDeleteholy moley utter crap indeed - perhaps women live longer because they have fuller lives... I like amelia's addition to the quote...
ReplyDeleteWell said, Amelia.
ReplyDeleteNow I can't stop thinking about it. A similar judgement was recently made about my stay-at-home life by a (female) acquaintance and I'm still light-headed with anger about it. What a life well-lived looks like is different for us all I guess.
ReplyDeleteWell that's an irritant to wake up to....As GG and I spend an evening at the gym, cooking dinner, walking the dog and talking away our male roommate is in his room gaming. Or watching sports and then gaming. Doesn't look like fun to me but I guess it won't kill you:)
ReplyDeletexo J.
Perhaps this sentence resonated with Diane Keaton's mother because she felt that she was not living a full life herself. This has nothing to do with your life, sweet Denise.
ReplyDeleteI think that the concept may be true (people who live life fully may live longer)...but I'm also irritated by the not-so-subtle implications that women are the majority who do this. I really like Amelia's addition.
ReplyDeleteI've always loved Tom Robbins...never before have I felt a sexist element to his writing (but maybe I've been oblivious). That distressed me as well that this came from him. Fiction or not...it is a damning statement.
Wow, I refute that. It irks me too, but it also makes me happy that I am living, so alive, whether long or short, who knows. But I'm feeling quite alive, thank you.
ReplyDeleteHe sounds self-absorbed. I would laugh at him if he sat across from me and said such a thing. And then I would amuse myself with things that I could say back. So lost in my thoughts that my stare would become quite distant and the surrounding noise, white.
ReplyDeletethat is bullshit. we live longer because we are epic! deep! flowing! cyclical! we exist on so many more planes, and it all ties together and gives us more life.
ReplyDeleteAs Tom Robbins was never one of my favorites...yes, I know...we were supposed to read him and rave...but I just never really cared for his writing very much. Cest le vie.
ReplyDeleteProbably irked because a man said it who has no concept of what LIVING means to a woman.
ReplyDeletei feel like i'm truly living even in the midst of the mundane moments of daily life. i don't need to travel to timbuktu or summon my innner wild child every two seconds to LIVE. gotta go. life is calling....
ReplyDeleteoh goodness! quite a line indeed.
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