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"I'm not being funny, right, but if you're sat in your brand-new house you've sweat your bollocks off to buy, and find out four hundred yards away there's some ogre living in a wood..."

"O cansaço profundo afrouxa as presilhas da identidade. As coisas pestanejam, cintilam e tremulam em suas margens. Tornam-se mais indeterminadas, mais permeáveis, e perdem certo teor de sua decisibilidade."

"Precisamente frente à vida desnuda, que acabou se tornando radicalmente transitória, reagimos com hiperatividade, com a histeria do trabalho e da produção. Também com o aceleramento de hoje tem muito a ver com a carência de ser."

"O que causa a depressão do esgotamento não é o imperativo de obedecer apenas a si mesmo, mas a pressão do desempenho. Visto a partir daqui, a Síndrome de Burnout não expressa o si-mesmo esgotado, mas antes a alma consumida."

"- Não aconteceu mais nada na tua vida?
- Não.
- Que história curtinha que você tem.
- Pois é."

"If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions. There are many ways in which I am doing feminism wrong, at least according to the way my perceptions of feminism have been warped by being a woman."

"This tension—the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman—is ongoing and pervasive."

"The tools of the modern age afford us many privileges, but they also cost us the privilege of time and space and distance to properly think through tragedy, to take a deep breath, to feel, to care."

"The tools of the modern age afford us many privileges, but they also cost us the privilege of time and space and distance to properly think through tragedy, to take a deep breath, to feel, to care.

"We want to be the best. We want the best of everything. All too often, we are aware of the gaping distance between who we are and whom we aspire to be and we desperately try to close that distance."

"What this debate shows us is that even in this day and age, the rights of women are not inalienable. Our rights can be and are, with alarming regularity, stripped away"

"Restrictive abortion legislation, in whatever form it takes, is a rather transparent ploy. If these politicians can’t prevent women from having abortions, they are certainly going to punish them. They are going to punish these women severely, cruelly, unusually for daring to make choices about motherhood, their bodies, and their futures."

"Rather than solve the real problems the United States is facing, some politicians, mostly conservative, have decided to try to solve the “female problem” by creating a smoke screen, reintroducing abortion and, more inexplicably, birth control into a national debate."

"We cannot lose sight of what happened on June 25 because we are so consumed by what happened next, nor can we lose sight of what happens today in favor of what tomorrow will bring."

"Psicoterapia não é fazer interpretações perspicazes e apropriadas; em grande medida, é devolver constantemente ao paciente aquilo que ele mesmo traz."

"Time and again, people of color are supposed to be grateful for scraps from the table. There’s this strange implication that we should enjoy certain movies or television shows simply because they exist."

"It is a testament to the movie’s excellence that the flaws are in the details"

"In many of Perry’s movies, women are not to be trusted. Women are regularly punished in these movies, whether by abuse, addiction, or adultery."

(The morality of Tyler Perry)

"Audiences are ready for more from black film—more narrative complexity, more black experiences being represented in contemporary film, more artistic experimentation, more black screenwriters and directors allowed to use their creative talents beyond the struggle narrative."

(Beyond the struggle narrative)

"i cried, more than once, but I was not moved. I was simply broken, the way anyone would ne nroken by witnessing such atrocities."

(Beyond the struggle narrative)

"While there’s a lot of shallow rhetoric about post-racial America, when it comes to the Oscars, Hollywood has very specific notions about how it wants to see black people on the silver screen. There are certainly exceptions, but all too often, critical acclaim for black films is built upon the altar of black suffering or subjugation."

(Beyond the struggle narrative)

"I can't debate the artistic merits of Django Unchained because the palms of my hands are burning with the desire to slap Tarantino in the face until my arms grow tired."

(Surviving Django)

"Most movies about slavery reveal the camera’s (director’s) predilection for depicting the broken bodies of slaves as if only through such visual evidence can a viewer truly understand the horrors of human bondage."

(Surviving Django)

"I firmly believe our responsibility as writers is to challenge ourselves to write beyond what we know."

"If you go to the theater without your brain (leave it in the glove compartment), The Help is a good movie. (...) If you do bring your brain to The Help, the movie is worse than you might imagine. Seeing The Help through a critical lens is excruciating."

(The solace of preparing fried foods...)