If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.