Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.
Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.