Starhawk Quotes

He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

You can be known as Val or Babycakes.” His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.” She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Names govern the world.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

By us, and not for us

Does our hand show in this?

Power may be defined as the production of intended effects

Whoever controls the question determines the answer.

… one accumulates or one gets accumulated.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.