anokarina:
”We can’t talk about race because we don’t want to be vulnerable, it’s uncomfortable—it’s antithetical to our psychological survival to be in an emotional space where the foundation of our identity is challenged.” —Tunde Wey 🎨
anokarina:
“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.” ―Chuck Palahniuk 🎨
anokarina:
“...society [can] function freely and democratically only if it [is] made up of individuals engaged in ... thinking activity – an activity that [requires] solitude.” —Jennifer Stitt 🎨
anokarina:
“Misogyny is territorially expressed in ways both trivial and violent. What is a rape but the insistence that the spatial rights of a man extend to the interior of a woman’s body, the insistence that her rights don’t extend even over her own person?”
anokarina:
“I need to be danced for and entertained. I have made the region of my delight a tiny head of a pin. Did anyone tell me that it would be this exhausting to get older?” ―Taffy Brodesser-Akner 🎨
anokarina:
“There are two kinds of borders: those that limit where we can go and those that limit what people can do to us.” ―Rebecca Solnit 🎨
anokarina:
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ―C.G. Jung 🎨
anokarina:
“You will find no shortage of pretexts. After all, you are a woman.” ―Andromache 🎨
anokarina:
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ―Pablo Picasso 🎨
anokarina:
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.” ―Martin Luther King Jr. 🎨
anokarina:
“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” ―Laurie Halse Anderson / “Speak,” 1999 🇺🇸
anokarina:
“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.” ―Johnny Depp 🎨
anokarina:
“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.” ―Anne Morrow Lindbergh 🎨
anokarina:
“‘Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about … when I am one and without company’ [but desire it and cannot find it].” ―Hannah Arendt
anokarina:
“The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.” ―Robin S. Sharma 🎨
anokarina:
“I hate a clever woman; never may she set foot in my house who aims at knowing more than women need; for in these clever women Cypris implants a larger store of villainy, while the artless woman is by her shallow wit from levity debarred.” ―Hyppolitus
anokarina:
“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.” ―Jim Butcher, Death Masks 🎨
anokarina:
“Dead men don't bite.” ―Theodotos 🎨
anokarina:
“This is the strangest life I have ever known.” ―Jim Morrison 🎨
anokarina:
“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.” ―Nathaniel Hawthorne 🎨
anokarina:
“A woman’s libido was a site of such agita that she couldn’t be trusted to keep it quiet, and so her body needed to be governed.” ―Mayukh Sen 🎨
anokarina:
“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.” ―Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth 🎨
anokarina:
“It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.” ―George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings 🎨
anokarina:
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ―Diane Arbus ☀️
anokarina:
“A weed is but an unloved flower.” ―Ella Wheeler Wilcox 🌺
anokarina:
“What good is this, I ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.” 🌺☀️🌺
anokarina:
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” —Tyrion Lannister 🌅
anokarina:
"Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.” ―Lord Varys 🌅
anokarina:
“Not being given room to speak often prematurely terminates a person’s arguments and renders [a woman] less effective in shaping the course of justice.” —Rebecca Solnit
anokarina:
PLEASE DRIVE GENTLY, DEARIE 🚫