"I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels"

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Thinking Quotes #Virginia Quotes #Squares Quotes

“The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.”
“Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.”
“I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.”
“I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.”
“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 10, 2014
“There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.”

Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for...”
“If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.”

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