quotes about Vapid

“Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.”

“Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.”

Source : Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.168, Open Road Media

“We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life.”

“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”

Source : Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

“You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.”

“The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.”

“Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.”

“The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.”