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#1

“Her Kind

I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.”
― Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back

tags: growth, poetry, survivor, woman

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#2

“Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.”
― Anne Sexton

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#3

“But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”
― Anne Sexton

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#4

“I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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#5

“I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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#6

“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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#7

“But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: the-hours

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#8

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
― Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

tags: aching-heart, billy-holiday, breakups, central-features, circumstances, comeback, desperation, dwelling, edna-st-vincent-millay, ex-lovers, feelings, hole-in-the-world, imagination, impressive-comeback, intense-desire, love, mental-environment, negative-experiences, nostalgia, phenomenon, reciprocity, romantic-life, scars, st-vincent-millay

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#9

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#10

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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#11

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
― Sarah Kay

tags: best, choice, love, worst, you

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#12

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

tags: choice, love

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#13

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

tags: choice, education, mind, thought

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#14

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
― Madeline L'Engle

tags: abuse-of-authority, abuse-of-power, autonomy, choice, control, freedom-of-choice, manipulation, oppression, puppet

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#15

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: achilles, choice, ignorance, knowledge, learning, science, universe, wisdom, wise

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#16

“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.

They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.

I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.

Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: choice, free-will, freedom, gender-roles, philosphy, politics, preconceptions, scholarship, sexism, woman, womanhood, women

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#17

“Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change”
― Gino Norris

tags: behavior, change, self-development, self-talk

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#18

“All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness...I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.”
― Blake Charlton, Spellbound

tags: self-development, selfhood

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#19

“Progress comes with practice, and practice comes with purpose. Know your “why.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

tags: inspirational, personal-development, personal-growth, practice, progress, self-care, self-development

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#20

“If yesterday got away from you, that’s okay. Let it go. Revisit the reason you started in the first place, and start again today.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

tags: habits, healthy-habits, inspirational, let-go, personal-development, personal-growth, productive-habits, productivity, self-development

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