Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't - and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
Rebecca Solnit
Literature
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
Shuggie Bain will break your heart – and put the pieces back together again
Last night I went to Malmö City Library, to my first indoor cultural event since December 2019. And fittingly, wonderfully, it was Douglas Stuart, talking about Shuggie Bain. As I have written elsewhere, this book is astonishing, a tour de force of love and despair. Acclaimed by critics, loved by readers, translated into a slew […]
Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
To create means to connect. It is to abolish the gap between the body, the mind, and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and non-fiction.
Nawal El Saadawi
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Doris Lessing
Killer Jellyfish Rock Academia
December 2017 Well this is exciting – a Killer Jellyfish comic, published in the journal ephemera. Strange yet happy bedfellows?
(I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME)
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon […]