Natalie

“We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imagination with the greatest intensity becomes history.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

“central aspect of pleasure activism is tapping into the natural abundance that exists within and between us, and between our species and this planet. Pleasure is not one of the spoils of capitalism. It is what our bodies, our human systems, are structured for; it is the aliveness and awakening, the gratitude and humility, the joy and celebration of being miraculous. So rather than encouraging moderation over and over, I want to ask you to relinquish your own longing for excess and to stay mindful of your relationship to enough.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelled like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realised that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.”
― Eve Babitz

“I've noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death.”
― Eve Babitz