I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.
Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning
A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis. . . . I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.