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Muriel Rukeyser
"Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other."
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Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.62, Northwestern University Press
Muriel Rukeyser
#Fear Quotes
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“One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.”
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“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
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“I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a new kind of world. And that's why I think as important as the issue of climate change is, it's even more important than it seems because if we can't evolve very quickly, new norms to deal with issues like climate change, we're not going to be able to survive in the kind of world we've created. So I think, really, the whole nature of democracy, of governance, of global community and of solving the kinds of problems of the 21st Century are really at stake.”
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“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.”
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“I think meditation became truly a means to a deeper connection as I was searching for a deeper truth within myself. Meditation became almost more spiritual than material in nature over the last two or three years and it has deepened a lot as a result of that.”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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“I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now.”
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“Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.”
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“Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.”
