She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Their Eyes Were Watching God // Zora Neale Hurston
women
MIND: Free
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
// Gloria Steinem
SOL: Denial
she thinks herself my
friend, yet she is drowning in
repressed dreams of me
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 58.”
MIND: x2
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.
// Charlotte Whitton
MIND: Choose Wisely
There are only two types of women — goddesses and doormats.
// Pablo Picasso
MIND: Conquer
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
// Charles Baudelaire
MIND: The Choice
I took my bottle and went to my bedroom. I undressed down to my shorts and went to bed. Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Bach, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
Women // Charles Bukowski
MIND: Power
It’s easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question “Who am I?” except for the voice in her own head.
Who Am I? // Betty Friedan
