Sydney

“I think it’s important for people, monogamous or polyamorous, to be comfortable with not having any romantic relationships in their life, because if you’re terrified of being single, you can end up staying in any kind of unfulfilling relationship simply to avoid being alone.”
― Lola Phoenix, The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

“It took me a long time to understand that being disabled wasn’t about wallowing in anything. Accepting certain things about my body and neurology as differences was actually part of taking responsibility for myself.”
― Lola Phoenix, The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

“If you are in a place where your nervous system is constantly agitated, where you are fighting with yourself, where you are unhappy with yourself and where you are barely listening to yourself, it’s going to be a struggle to really be able to see if a relationship is actually fulfilling.”
― Lola Phoenix, The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
― Stokely Carmichael