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‘ From my first meetings with World Weary Woman, it was clear that she could work. She could analyze, psychologize. But she had not learned how to play ... It is in pausing to connect with her own inner wisdom that World Weary Woman learns to create ... to cultivate what brings joy, to savour her connection with cosmos. Thus she transforms her suff... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
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“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
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"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Voltaire
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We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
-Susan Sontag
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