Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf, and The Indigo Girls

An excerpt from Anne Frank’s Diary:

“Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.” 

       – June 21, 1942 from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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“Virginia Woolf” lyrics by the Indigo Girls

Some will strut and some will fret
See this an hour on the stage
Others will not, but they’ll sweat
In their hopelessness
In their rage

We’re all the same
The men of anger
And women of the page

They published your diary
And that’s how I got to know you

A key to the room of her own and a mind without end

And here’s a young girl
On a kind of a telephone line through time

The voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend

So I know I’m all right
Life will come and life will go
Still I feel it’s all right
Just got a letter to my soul

When my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughs in my face
You say that each life has its place

The hatches were battened
The thunderclouds rolled and the critics stormed
The battle surrounded the white flag of your youth
If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality
Well you know a hundred years later Im sitting here living proof

So you know you’re all right
Life will come and life will go
Still you feel it’s all right
Someone’ll get a letter to your soul

When your whole life is on the tip of your tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughed in your face
Did you hear me say that each life has its place?

The place where you hold me
Is dark in a pocket of truth
The moon had swallowed the sun and the light of the Earth
And so it was for you
When the river eclipsed your life
And sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me
And it was my rebirth

So we’re all right
Lives will come and lives will go
Still you’ll feel it’s all right
Someone gets a letter that goes straight to your soul

Then you know you’re all right
     When my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
Then you say you’re all right
     Empty pages for the no longer young
And you say it’s all right
     Each life has its place
And it’s all right

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Here is another post on Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell:

http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/sisters-virginia-woolf-vanessa-bell-pens-brushes-presses-and-minds-of-their-own/

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Excerpts from Anne Frank’s Diary:

“I was stunned.  A call-up:  everyone knows what that means.  Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced though my head.  How could we let Father go to such a fate?  “Of course he’s not going,” declared Margot as we waited for Mother in the living room.  “Mother’s gone to Mr. van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow.  The van Daans are going with us.  There will be seven of us altogether.”  Silence.  We couldn’t speak.  The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for Mother, the heat, the suspense – all this reduced us to silence.”

“Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the bag, but I’m not sorry.  Memories mean more to me than dresses.” 

     – July 8, 1942 from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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Virginia Woolf on Wikipedia

Indigo Girls on Wikipedia 

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Here are 5 related Anne Frank and Rutka Laskier posts (click on the thumbnails to see the posts):

 

  

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Anne Frank on Wikipedia

Rutka Laskier on Wikipedia 

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