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“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough”
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
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“The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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