"How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?"

-- Clarice Lispector

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“If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.”
“We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr
“In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own”
“The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.”
“Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.”

Source : "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.
“I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.”
“The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.”
“And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.”

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