“When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”
—Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via holdonmagnolia)
June 2011
106 posts
tuesday's troubles
bored & lonely & afraid.
kept M on FB chat for an hour last night - so tired of having no-ones to talk to.
sometimes I forget how I can be sad, driving through the sunshine with open windows & loud music. then I remember.
kitten is a possibility.
L might come to Syr tomorrow night - even though I know it probably won’t happen, I would love to see her. I am so, so happy to see this beautiful girl come so far.
so many things I want to do - read about a billion books, write a million things for the feminist magazine at school, write prodigiously, change the world - but everything seems so tedious.
not scared of anything except my own apathy.
May 2011
58 posts
“I love it when you call me Big Poppa.”
—Sigmund Freud (via historysaidwhat)
“At Amy’s request, she was sent home from Iraq, after a military psychiatrist determined that she was “too psychologically unstable” to remain, and diagnosed her with acute anxiety, PTSD, and depression. “They convinced themselves that anyone who would do a self-abortion is crazy,” Amy says. “It’s not a crazy thing. It’s something that rational, thinking women do when they have no options.”
—Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend | Politics | Religion Dispatches
“The second main type of boredom, existential boredom, is more of a philosophical position than an emotional state. Its sufferers seem to find the condition of existence itself to be boring. This variety is known by many names: melancholy, depression, acedia (a form of Christian spiritual despair), world-weariness and Sartrean nausea, among others. Toohey is inclined to think that existential boredom did not exist before the Enlightenment. But that is hard to square with Ecclesiastes, whose author concluded long ago that “all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
—Book Review - Boredom - A Lively History - By Peter Toohey - NYTimes.com
