“The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects - born of Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance.”
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.”
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.”
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring s closest to that fullness.”
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
― Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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