Maryam

“Instead of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill? The ‘mental health plague’ in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently dysfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“آن نخل ناخلف که تبر شد ز ما نبود
ما را زمانه گر شکند، ساز می شویم”
― محمدعلی صائب تبریزی

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― audre lorde