Neeyati

“We have grown accustomed to living with that knowledge without feeling dizzy every morning, and instead of moving around warily and tentatively, in constant amazement, we behave as if nothing has happened, take the strangeness of it all for granted and get dizzy if life shows itself as it truly is: improbable, unpredictable, remarkable.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I

“There is one thing SF writers know that the AI bosses who are gunning for generational dynastic wealth by transforming us all into AI-lashed reverse centaurs do not know, and that they absolutely don't want you to know. That thing is this: the future is up for grabs. It is not inevitable. AI isn't a genie that can't be put back into a bottle. How we use AI is up to us. Whether we use AI is up to us. The future can be ours, if we never stop remembering that the most important fact about a technology isn't what it does, it's who it does it for, and who it does it to.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

“The practice of observing the living world and taking inspirations for human ways of living from its model is an essential element of indigenous science. It embraces the reality that there are intelligences other than our own, from whom we might learn.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Self-love is always risky for women within patriarchy. Females are rewarded more when we experience ourselves and act as though we are flawed, insecure, or especially dependent and needy...Usually self-help books and therapies encourage us to believe that acts of self-love will make life better, happier. So it is especially confusing to women when we choose to be self-loving only to find ourselves resented.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love