"I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch."

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Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

Rebecca Wells

#Ambition Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Want Quotes

“One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”
“I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.”
“For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.”
“Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.”
“The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.”
“Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.”
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingâ€”they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”

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