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In short, if you are doing something that is not illegal (photography, dancing, playing the flute), while doing something that is not criminal (trespassing) you can be automatically arrested, and liable to six months in prison and a
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“The spectre of alternative truth – highly organised, large-scale lies – that haunts the establishment today was heralded by the normalisation of shamelessness.”
― How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
― How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
“Central to paternalism is the notion of the status quo: that its form of government is the only viable option. Through history, the concept of the feminine has been linked by the patriarchy to sedition, protest, any form of questioning this status quo.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“Women who do not ask for permission are powerful.”
― The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
― The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
“There are boundaries in nature. There are rivers, forests, escarpments, ravines and mountain ranges; there are cellulose walls. But these boundaries are in fact areas of transaction, semi-permeable membranes. The notion that a perimeter should be impenetrable is a human contrivance alone.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“Someone who needs a veil, an object, even one made of silk, between themselves and the world is afraid of life. They’re afraid to experience things, to really feel them. And I think life is far too short and far too wonderful not to really look at it, not to really grab it, not to really live it.”
― The Eighth Life
― The Eighth Life
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