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"Não sei o que disse na conferência de imprensa porque a ouvi mas não a escutei. Apenas conseguia olhar para o seu cabelo perfeito as unhas e mãos perfeitas a camisa perfeita. Quantas pessoas foram necessárias para preparar aquilo, quantas pessoas mal pagas com hipotecas e letras com casas cheias de armadilhas para baratas e manchas de bolor para que ela estivesse assim tão perfeita."

"Diziam me que falavam do que lhe fariam, alguns com desejo e outros com aquilo que muitos homens sentem pelas mulheres, que pensam que é desejo mas que é apenas ódio."

What will we be able to access and identify when we have aligned with our goals and dreams? I think about all the times busyness and exhaustion have stolen my joy and possible life-giving connections. How many times have you attempted to connect with a friend or loved one but a brutal work schedule and a pull to hustle more have severed the connection, stolen your time together, or made it almost impossible to bond?

"I keep hearing about the ways we exhaust ourselves to be seen as valuable and I am wondering when we will shift to see our inherent worth"

"What we have internalized as productivity has been informed by a capitalist, ableist, patriarchal system. Our drive and obsession to always be in a state of “productivity” leads us to the path of exhaustion, guilt, and shame. We falsely elieve we are not doing enough and that we must always be guiding our lives toward more labor."

"We believe rest is a luxury, privilege, and an extra treat we can give to ourselves after suffering from exhaustion and sleep deprivation. Rest isn’t a luxury, but an absolute necessity if we’re going to survive and thrive. Rest isn’t an afterthought, but a basic part of being human. Rest is a divine right. Rest is a human right. We come into the world prepared to love, care, and rest."

"The lack of an open pathway to rest has never been given to most living in a capitalist system. There is no blueprint or cookie-cutter way to get to our liberation."

"And now, racked with sobs, I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all"

"Capitalism and patriarchy together, as structures of domination, have worked overtime to undermine and destroy this larger unit of extended kin. Replacing the family community with a more privatized small autocratic unit helped increase alienation and made abuses of power more possible."

Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the unifying message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition.

"Rather than calling us to embrace love and greater community, it actually requires an investment in the logic of alienation and estrangement"