3 Quotes & Sayings By M Rickert

M. Rickert is a German author, researcher, and professor of psychology. Her writing highlights the often overlooked roles of women in history, as well as the role of female psychotherapists. Since 2000, she has been working on a book about the history of the third-wave feminism movement in Germany Read more

She is currently working on a book about women's rights in Germany from 1918 to 1945.

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All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit") M. Rickert
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The dead are jealous, jealous, jealous and they will do anything to keep you from the living, the lucky living. They will argue with you, and distract you, and if that doesn't work, they will even let you hug them, and dance for you, and kiss you, and laugh, anything to keep you. The dead are selfish. Jealous. Lonely. Desperate. Hungry. ("The Chambered Fruit") M. Rickert