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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ↗


— Stephen Fry


#books #depression #insecurity #isolation #language

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. ↗


— Virginia Woolf


#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗


— Virginia Woolf


#dignity #empowerment #feminism #gender #history

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. ↗


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear. ↗


— T. Rafael Cimino


#americans #atomic-bomb #george-bush #nuclear #nuclear-weapons

The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the single most correct site where truth can be represented. Indeed, without making this kind of metamove, any 'liberation' or social movement eventually becomes destined to repeat the oppressive authoritarianism from which it is attempting to free itself, and become trapped inside a drive for truth that ends only in producing its own brand of dominations. What U.S. third world feminism thus demanded was a new subjectivity, a political revision that denied any one ideology as the final answer, while instead positing a tactical subjectivity with the capactiy to de- and recenter, given the forms of power to be moved. These dynamics are what were required in the shift from enacting a hegemonic oppositional theory and practice to engaging in the differential form of social movement, as performed by U.S. feminists of color during the post-World War II period of great social transformation. p. 58-59. ↗


— Chela Sandoval


#activist #feminism #social-movements #ideology

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace. 
 ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#gunfire #guns #peace #people #politicians

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches. ↗


— Richelle E. Goodrich


#gratefulness #gratitude #richelle #richelle-goodrich #smile

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness. ↗


— Richelle E. Goodrich


#darkness #gratefulness #gratitude #light #richelle

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗


— Elbert Hubbard


#insight #wealth #wisdom #wit #insight






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