Sarah Embaby

“The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions