Mary Wollstonecraft
Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Feminist
Yumi Sakugawa
Most of the time, the universe speaks to us very quietly … in pockets of silence, in coincidences, in nature, in forgotten memories, in the shape of clouds, in moments of solitude, in small tugs at our hearts. — Yumi Sakugawa
Audre Lorde
Don’t wait for inspiration. Remember. Do not wait for inspiration. You don’t need to be inspired, to write a poem. You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful. –Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995) Directed by… Continue reading Audre Lorde
Luce Irigaray
Touch perceives itself but transcends the gaze. — Luce Irigaray
Hélène Cixous
But, regardless of gender, the writer must write about love…love which is our fate, [a] twisted thing, tortuous, delicate, eager, insatiable, the best, and worst thing, the junction point between everything and nothing, the oxymoronic knot of all existence, love which makes cattle meat of us — Hélène Cixous
Mary Wollstonecraft
I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words. ― Mary Wollstonecraft
Simone de Beauvoir
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart. — Simone de Beauvoir
Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins
If we run fast enough, the winds will not catch us. — Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, from preface to “Coal,” in her mother’s collectionThe Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. (W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, February 17, 2000)
The Vale of Soul-Making 