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Most critically, a capitalist society values productivity in its citizens above all else, and those with severe mental illness are much less likely to be productive in ways considered valuable: by adding to the cycle of production and ...more
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Maya Angelou
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
Maya Angelou

Roxane Gay
“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be.” This is a popular notion, the idea that the fat among us are carrying a thin woman inside. Each time I see this particular commercial, I think, I ate that thin woman and she was delicious but unsatisfying. And then I think about how fucked up it is to promote this idea that our truest selves are thin women hiding in our fat bodies like imposters, usurpers, illegitimates.”
Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Anthony de Mello
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone else’s. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine”
Anthony de Mello

Oliver Burkeman
“One can waste years this way, systematically postponing precisely the things one cares about the most.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Esmé Weijun Wang
“Some people dislike diagnoses, disagreeably calling them, boxes and labels, but I've always found comfort in preexisting conditions; I like to know that I'm not pioneering an inexplicable experience.”
Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

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