Maribeaux

“As I held her and caressed her and kissed her naked flesh, I felt a strange and powerful awareness of the imbalance and awkwardness of the human body. Holding Naoko in my arms, I wanted to explain to her, "I am having sex with you now. I am inside you. But really this is nothing. It doesn't matter. It is nothing but the joining of two bodies. All we are doing is telling each other things that can only be told by the rubbing together of two imperfect lumps of flesh. By doing this, we are sharing our imperfection." But of course I could never have said such a thing with any hope of being understood. I just went on holding her tightly.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Do not forget the most important fact that not heredity and not environment are determining factors. - Both are giving only the frame and the influences which are answered by the individual in regard to his styled creative power.”
― Alfred Adler, The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

“Δεν ανήκω σε κανένα κόμμα και σε καμιά πολιτική οργάνωση. Δεν είμαι μέλος καμιάς εκκλησίας. Δεν είμαι οπαδός καμιάς θρησκείας. ... Έχοντας περάσει από τα ξερονήσια και τις φυλακές, νιώθω πως είμαι συγκρατούμενος όχι μόνο με όσους υποφέρουν στα φασιστικά στρατόπεδα, μα και με όσους βασανίζονται στο Αρχιπέλαγος Γκουλάγκ. Νιώθω αλληλέγγυος και συνυπεύθυνος με όσους αγωνίστηκαν, αγωνίζονται και θα αγωνιστούν εναντίον όλων των τυράννων, εστεμμένων και τραγιασκοφόρων, εναντίον όλων των δεσποτών, γαλονάδων και ρασοφόρων.”
― Άρης Αλεξάνδρου

“Girls started going steady at twelve and thirteen, in junior high. Manufacturers put out brassieres with false bosoms of foam rubber for little girls of ten. And an advertisement for a child’s dress, sizes 3–6x, in the New York Times in the fall of 1960, said: “She Too Can Join the Man-Trap Set.”
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique