“The term 'sexist' characterizes cultural and economic structures with create and enforce the elaborate and rigid patterns of sex-marking and sex-announcing which divide the species, along lines of sex, into dominators and subordinates. Individual acts and practices are sexist which reinforce and support those structures, either as culture or as shapes taken on by the enculturated animals. Resistance to sexism is that which undermines those structures by social and political action and by projects of reconstruction and revision of ourselves.”
― The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
― The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
“Too little sacral movement (overly stiff SI joints) and too much sacral movement (unstable SI joints) each come with their own physical issues.”
― Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
― Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
“After you’ve nodded the head forward a bit to open the throat, work to lift the head toward the sky as you also try to move it toward the wall behind you…without lifting the chin.”
― Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
― Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
“We can reflect on the fact that each of us is, in Otto Rank’s lovely words, a “temporal representative of the cosmic primal force.” We are all directly descended from, and consequently related to, the first living organism, as well as to every earth-dwelling creature that has ever been alive or will live in the future.”
― The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
― The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
“People said you could get lost in California, never come back to reality; people warned about lotus-eating. Paul thought maybe he didn't mind so much. He could stay here forever, and time would stop, and he wouldn't have to choose anything.”
― Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
― Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
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