"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer (opens in new tab)

EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.

I was first introduced to Holzer's work when I found the "Green Table" in the corner of a courtyard at UC San Diego. It's engraved with the following statement:

"IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY"

The freakin after-images...

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"a man can't know what it is to be a mother"

That's true at a precise level. But more valuable is:

"a man can know what it is to be a parent"

and I think that's a much more valuable statement.

I pretty much recall this exact discussion happening during the VP debate.