Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 10:52:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Cheryl Gittens <cgittens-AT-mtholyoke.edu>
Subject: Re: on the quiet


hello my name is cheryl thanx so much for that beautiful quote....C

On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Stella Kao wrote:

> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:58:56 -0500
> From: Stella Kao <skao-AT-husc.harvard.edu>
> To: third-world-women-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: on the quiet
> 
> 
> it's been a quiet week on this list after so much
> talk about reading together.  i actually dn't mind
> since i'm so behind on both reading and writing.
> 
> i came across this quote of a quote today in my
> rading and thought of this list.  it's
> from trinh minh-ha (woman native other):
> "Never does one open the discussion by coming
> right to the heart of the matter...to allowit to emerge,
> people approach it indirectly by postponing
> until it matures, b letting it come when it is ready
> to come.  There is no catching, no pushing,
> no directing, no breaking through, no
> need for a linear progression which gives the
> comforting illusion that one knows where one goes."
> So pehraps we're merely allowing things to 
> emerge here, gently...
> 
> stella
>