#sm

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. ↗

— Charles Bernheimer

#decadent #emile-zola #feminine #joris-kerl-huysmans #nature

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#realism #nature

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#feminism #inspirational #write #inspirational

My greatest fear is time wasted—a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christian #inspirational #micah #remnant #the

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#inspirational #philosophy #inspirational

Love does not imply pacifism. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#pacifism #love

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#economics #redistribution-of-wealth #socialism #inspirational

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#plutocracy #money

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#inspirational #inspirational

She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#shamanism #inspirational