Jessamyn Tabakin

“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life

“Flat outstretched upon a mound
Of earth I lie; I press my ear
Against its surface and I hear
Far off and deep, the measured sound
Of heart that beats within the ground.
And with it pounds in harmony
The swift, familiar heart in me.
They pulse as one, together swell,
Together fall; I cannot tell
My sound from earth's, for I am part
Of rhythmic, universal heart.”
― Elizabeth Odell