Unity

“But just then, a herd of deer clipped down the street, followed by a topless unicycle collective.”
― Chana Porter, The Seep

“It takes tremendous bravery to confront childhood trauma and attachment ruptures. You are not broken and in need of fixing. Rather, you are in need of care and nurturance for the unique attachment experiences you went through.”
― Jessica Fern, The Polysecure Workbook: Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships

“Life,” my father said, “is what we have the most in common with every other creature. We all want to live and we become scared when living is threatened. All of us just want to survive and be comfortable, be happy.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

“It wasn’t until human beings stopped moving that women with sexual independence started gaining a bad rap, because once owning land became desirable, people wanted to be able to pass it down to their children, and in order for men to know who their children were, female monogamy became a must. To create a system of inheritance, societies became patriarchal, and any remaining notions of goddess-like sexual liberation went kaput.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language