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But in my experience, making people suffer doesn’t make them more virtuous, it just makes them despise you.
“As we’ve left the comforts of running water and air conditioning and clean clothes, people’s perceptions of us have changed. They look at us more warily. They’re less friendly. We’ve been experiencing, to an infinitesimal degree, the social and psychological toll that actual poor or unhoused people face every day.”
― Queering the American Dream
― Queering the American Dream
“Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Ecofeminism, put most simply, is the bridge between ecology and feminism, acknowledging that there is a direct relationship between how we treat the earth and how we treat marginalized women.”
― Queering the American Dream
― Queering the American Dream
“I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Reminders of Him
― Reminders of Him
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
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