Notwithstanding much cant and hypocrisy,—chaff which I find it difficult to separ-ate from my wheat, but for which I am as sorry as any man,—I will breathe freely and stretch myself in this respect, it is such a relief to both the moral and physical system; and I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney.
Qing Jing Tepesi müritleri onun önünde hep uysal olmuşlardı. Osurmaya bile kalkışmazlardı.
“… it is imperative to ask who speaks for the community and whose interest that community serves.
Too often community is synonymous with men, and too often those self-appointed male leaders are the ones who determine what ‘is too far’. In fact, the word in concept ‘community’ much like the word and concept ‘culture’: for example, a popular way to rein in people - read ‘women’ - to tell them that they must not oppose a behavior or way of being because it is part of the ‘culture’ or what the ‘community’ wants. Who determined that it was culture and who speaks for the community? Men and men. That is the simple answer. The more complicated answer is men and men and a system -patriarchy- that enables and protects them at the same time as it socializes women to internalize the dictates patriarchy and to accept them as culture as community. If women created culture and community, we would not be accused of ‘going too far’.”
Sayfa 7Kitabı okudu
Whatever his antecedents he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.
"When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision.”
scientists say that 99 per cent of everything in the solar system is in the sun. the sun is enormous. it is much, much bigger than all its planets added together
Sayfa 16 - oxford
