“The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and ent...” — Elfriede Jelinek Quote

“The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.”

“A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.”

“I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.”

“Maybe I was just born to argue with men.”

“You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you're quite sure what it's revealing, and then you perform it.”

“It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?”