Susan

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
― Rumi

“Some strangers are not, however, the as-yet-undecided; they are, in principle, undecidables. They are the premonition of that `third element' which should not be. These are the true hybrids, the monsters - not just unclassified, but unclassifiable. They do not question just this one opposition here and now: they question oppositions as such, the very principle of opposition, the plausibility of dichotomy it suggests and feasibility of separation it demands. They unmask the brittle artificiality of division. They destroy the world.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and Ambivalence

“Love is a constant negotiation, a constant conversation; to love someone is to lay yourself open to rejection and abandonment; love is something you can earn but not extort. It is an arena in which you are not in control, because someone else also has rights and decisions; it is a collaborative process; making love is at its best a process in which those negotiations become joy and play.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto