"When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years..."

-- Caroline Knapp

#Crush Quotes #Passion Quotes #Night Quotes

“Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.”

Source : "Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”
“The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.”
“People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something.”
“Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.”
“I'm just at the beginning of my dream. At 78, I'm finally at the place now for myself where I feel my true voice has a potential of being expressed out in the world.”
“If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.”

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