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Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys

“I wish a woman could have action in her life. Like a man. It agitates me to pain that the skyline over there is ever our limit. I long sometimes for a power of vision that would overpass it. If I could behold all I imagine… I’ve never seen a city. I’ve never spoken with men, and I fear my whole life will pass…”
 
The first step towards nonviolence, which is surely an absolute obligation we all bear, is to begin to think critically, and to ask others to do the same.
by Judith Butler
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
by Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
Ideally, we lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world — in short, we become more critical and more capacious in our thinking and our acting.
by Judith Butler