“What is SATORI. (Enlightenment).
The (relatively easy) acceptance of the interdependency of all things in the universe, and, beyond that, (the rather more complex) how you as an individual choose to deal with that fact.”
Source: The Way We Are
“The feminism that has mattered to the media and made magazine headlines in recent years has been the feminism most useful to heterosexual, high-earning middle- and upper-middle-class white women. Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.”
Source: Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
“In my next lifetime I wanted to come back as a guy. They seemed to always get the upper hand.”
Source: Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye
“she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems”
“Women generally get rich through divorcing a rich man.”
“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as women are divided by dichotomies that stem from gender oppression, e.g., virgin versus whore, respectable versus unrespectable, and, ultimately, wife versus the other woman, all of which puts women in competition for men, they will not be able to effectively challenge the structures that support some while not supporting others, and in some cases, even exploiting them.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“Social scientists report that before European colonialism in Africa, prostitution did not even exist.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“For those who have a desire to know, and those in the throes of desire.”
Source: The (In)Fidelity Factor
“Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.”
Source: The Arcades Project
“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections