Amanda Jacobsmeyer

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Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)

by bell hooks

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Jun 22, 2022 07:04PM

Amanda’s Quotes

“I now know that true chillness can also come from being so demoralized by American politics that you cannot care about men.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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“We must start asking what we want white manhood to be, and what we will no longer accept. We must stop rewarding violence and oppression. We must stop confusing bullies with leaders. We must stop telling women and people of color that the only path to success lies in emulating white male dominance.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

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“But what is life but fifteen to one hundred years of becoming cocooned in societal bullshit, followed by zero to eighty-five years of sloughing off that bullshit through reading, therapy, and sitting on the edge of a lake thinking about your life and choices?”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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“Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: being-alive, being-in-the-moment, life, life-affirming, lives, parallel-lives

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