Italian Academic Quotes

Not frowning battlement nor lofty tower,
Not trenches wide nor river running by-
Shall save a city from her foeman's power,
But her sons' valor and fidelity.

Niccolò Forteguerri

The hero [of a narrative] must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female.... The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Female is what is not susceptible to transformation, to life or death; she (it) is an element of plot-space, a topos, a resistance, matrix and matter.

Teresa de Lauretis

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

Daniele Bolelli