Jadranka

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
― Audre Lorde

“I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!”
― Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea

“If only your ears were not so formless, so clogged with meaning(s), that they are closed to what does not in some way echo the already heard" (p. 113, The Sex Which is Not One)”
― Irigaray, Luce

“While a puzzle can be solved with just one or two missing pieces, pain is much more complicated, and talking about pain, especially chronic pain, as if it has an easy answer can be irresponsibly deceptive. Morris suggests that by understanding pain as a mystery, we can respect its complexity and recognize the alienating experience of living in pain. “Mysteries,” he writes, “introduce us to unusual states of being… mysteries disturb the world we take for granted.”
― Amy Berkowitz, Tender Points