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"the conversation between lorde & adrienne rich was fascinating and beautiful and you can see the dialogue between the two of them playing out in a lot of these essays. it’s making me want to go back and read rich again and look for lorde’s influence there as i had never read any audre lorde when i first read rich. just very cool to me that you can tell how much they were talking and working off one another!" — Feb 20, 2025 11:14AM
"the conversation between lorde & adrienne rich was fascinating and beautiful and you can see the dialogue between the two of them playing out in a lot of these essays. it’s making me want to go back and read rich again and look for lorde’s influence there as i had never read any audre lorde when i first read rich. just very cool to me that you can tell how much they were talking and working off one another!" — Feb 20, 2025 11:14AM
“If people like me don't work, it's because they look at the world, at all the injustice and the muck, and all they see is a nation falling in upon itself, and taking them with it. But the muck has new things growing out of it - wonderful things! - new habits of working, new kinds of people, new ways of being alive and in love ...”
― Tipping the Velvet
― Tipping the Velvet
“But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male. I saw myself in it - in the hyphen.”
― Tipping the Velvet
― Tipping the Velvet
“There was so much I should have told you. I just didn't have time. I didn't know. I didn't know I'd have to say: A sword doesn't hold an edge on its own, you sack of Ninth House garbage. I didn't know I'd have to say, if you dip a sword into melty bone, the metal gets more pitted than an iron mine, you cross-patched necromantic shit.
I think the main thing I should have said was, You sawed open your skull rather than be beholden to someone. You turned your brain into soup to escape anything less than 100 percent freedom. You put me in a box and buried me rather than give up your own goddamned agenda.
Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it.
Actually, scratch that, the main thing I should have said was, SQUATS ARE A START, OR A COUPLE OF STAR JUMPS, THEY'RE NOT DIFFICULT.”
― Harrow the Ninth
I think the main thing I should have said was, You sawed open your skull rather than be beholden to someone. You turned your brain into soup to escape anything less than 100 percent freedom. You put me in a box and buried me rather than give up your own goddamned agenda.
Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it.
Actually, scratch that, the main thing I should have said was, SQUATS ARE A START, OR A COUPLE OF STAR JUMPS, THEY'RE NOT DIFFICULT.”
― Harrow the Ninth
“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...”
― Tipping the Velvet
― Tipping the Velvet
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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