“There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it.”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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