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It’s disconcerting and making him dizzy and maybe once you go to wonderland you’re supposed to stay there because nothing will ever be the same in the real world, in the other world, afterward.
“In an exchange between a beguine and a French church master, the beguine asserted her superiority: “You glow, we take fire. / You assume, we know.”572”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“transcendence through interdependence. The love of others is a treacherous but necessary path and the only one available to us, because we are not gods.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“the epistemic state of many a thinking woman is one of self-doubt.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“It’s not surprising that the philosopher who introduced the idea of radical doubt was a woman, since women learn to question themselves from a young age.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“the brief time we are here matters, that it is meaningful and contains beauty. We’ve learned to talk to ourselves in this expansive and dark vacuum to keep ourselves company, so that we can transcend our finite, perplexing condition—if not in fact, then in our imaginations. We’ve learned to free ourselves—if only for the duration of a poem, an equation, a book, a prayer—from our despair.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
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