Oksana Zabuzhko

thumb|right|Oksana Zabuzhko Oksana Zabuzhko (born 19 Septmeber 1960) is a Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist. Sabushko focuses on Ukrainian identity and often uses feminist and postcolonial methodology. Quotes That’s what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it. The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, 2009 It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed. Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories, 2014 Ukrainians are fighting to free Europe from the spectre of totalitarianism Oksana Zabuzhko addressing MEPs on International Women’s Day 2022 We have behind us a whole century of mass madness. What have we learned from it if we do not recognize history repeating itself in a new guise? Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide, 2023 If authors weren’t translated, it doesn’t mean they didn’t exist” Lviv Book Forum 2023 External links Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Women authors from Ukraine Category:Women born in the 1960s