Archive for the ‘Words of Wisdom’ Category

• Nikki Giovanni, “When I Die”

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows / that I know that touching was and still is and will always / be the true / revolution”

  –Nikki Giovanni, “When I Die”

• Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “Creativity is not a solitary movement.  That is its power.  Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed.  That is why beholding someone else’s creative word, image, idea, fills us up,  inspires us to our own creative work.  A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent.  One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.”

  —Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

• Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding.  It is also a map for those who follow after us.”

  –Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

• “Talking to Men About Rape,” Andrea Dworkin

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “And another thing about equality is that it cannot coexist with rape. It cannot. And it cannot coexist with pornography or with prostitution or with the economic degradation of women on any level, in any way. It cannot coexist, because implicit in all those things is the inferiority of women.”

  Andrea Dworkin, “I Want a Twenty-Four Hour-Truce During Which There Is No Rape,” originally published under the title “Talking to Men About Rape,” in Out!, Vol. 2, No. 6, April 1984; then under the current title in , No. 13, Fall 1984.