Echo Louanna

“The moody politics of the moderns home had become complicated and confusing. There were many modern and apparently powerful women I knew who had made a home for everyone else, but did not feel at home in their family home.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

“Satisfy your mind by responding to your senses.
We need to be actively conscious of them and not going about aimlessly in our daily lives. Note the differences between the following:
The passive state of seeing and the active state of looking.
The passive state of hearing and the active state of listening.
The passive state of noticing a smell and the active state of smelling something.
The passive state of tasting something and the active state of savouring it.
The passive state of touching something and the active state of feeling it.”
― Ryūnosuke Koike, The Practice of Not Thinking

“Attachment theory can too easily segue into mother-blaming, so I want you to understand that this lack of a sense of safety doesn't have to be the caregiver's (read 'mother's') fault; a parent and a baby are two different people, and sometimes, with the best will in the world, two people can be a bad fit for each other. Misrecognition is very often mutual.”
― Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

“Judgement as often as not happens unconsciously, and in the blink of an eye, but once it's been made, its object is placed firmly in the third person. Once you have been pushed outside the first person plural, anything might be done to you, anything can happen.”
― Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism