Aideen

“How little one ever knows of the path of one’s life…”
― G. Lawrence, The Lady Anne

“have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don’t wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The onus is not on me to change. Instead, it’s the world around me.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“felt a great respect for a bird who obeyed the master of her own choosing. The saker was no slave. She had no master but the sun. She was wondrously free in a world where all men had many earthly masters. All common men were ruled by nobles, all nobles were ruled by dukes and earls. Even kings were the servants of the Pope. But the saker was not ruled by any man. She chose her master herself, and was ruled only by the sun in the skies.”
― G. Lawrence, La Petite Boulain