"Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Being Yourself Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.”

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“The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.”
“My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist,”

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“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.”
“You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.”
“You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.”
“The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act.Â What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other.Â Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other.Â And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal.”
“The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.”

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