“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?”— Franz Kafka, in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated November 8, 1903
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“I feel very small. I don’t understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”— Anaïs Nin, from Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939
“Marketplace feminism is in many ways about just branding feminism as an identify that everyone can and should consume. That’s not a bad thing in theory, but in practice it tends to involve highlighting only the most appealing feature of a multifaceted set of movements. It kicks the least sensational and most complex issues under a rug and assures them that we’ll get back to them once everybody’s on board.”— Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once
“A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.”— Anne Carson in her introduction to Sophocles’ Electra
Anyway… did y’all try the critical thinking I thought the critical thinking was lovely