To go to bed and to wake up again day after day besides a woman, to lie in bed with our arms around each other and drift in and out of sleep, to be with each other—not as a quick stolen pleasure, nor as a wild treat—but like sunlight, day after day in the regular course of our lives. I was discovering all the ways that love creeps into life when two selves exist closely, when two women meet.
Rupi Kau. (via weheartit)
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
— Erin Anastasia
Nicole Loraux in Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
I have never been attracted by fecundity. It is the refusal of the utility: participation in the continuity of the species is an abdication. In order to have children, a humility nearly inconceivable in the modern world is necessary, a brutalized passivity or a mad pretension… Myself, I know that I belong with the idea of Lilith, the anti-Eve, and that my universe is that of the spirit. Physical maternity instinctively repulses me
What’s yours will find you.
These hags, these great beauties, these mermaids who taunt, who feast, who slash, who steal, these succubae who cannot rest, my mothers, my sisters, my unborn friends, my keepers, my guardians.
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