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“Constant motion camouflages the extent to which I'm alien even to myself.”
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
“We, the older generation, did not yet understand, as most men do and as young women are learning today, that work and the longing for love can be harmoniously combined so that work remains as the main goal of existence. Our mistake was that each time we succumbed to the belief that we had finally found the one and only in the man we loved, the person with whom we believed we could blend our soul, one who was ready fully to recognize us as a spiritual-physical force.
But over and over again things turned out differently, since the man always tried to impose his ego upon us and adapt us fully to his purposes.”
― The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
But over and over again things turned out differently, since the man always tried to impose his ego upon us and adapt us fully to his purposes.”
― The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
“But the real crisis of our times, of my generation, is not that we don’t have it good, or even that we might be worse off later on. No, the real crisis is that we can’t come up with anything better.”
― Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
― Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
“Death is bad. The gods
must have thought so,
for it if were a good thing,
they then, too, would die.”
― Sappho: The Greek Poems
must have thought so,
for it if were a good thing,
they then, too, would die.”
― Sappho: The Greek Poems
“We both know there's no returning to the beginning, no knowing who you've always been, no going home again. But we also know that there's no staying where you are: that the moment that your body sutures together into a whole and steady place you know, something will give way and you'll be changed to mere parts again.”
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
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