Felicia
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Felicia
The will to learn is an intrinsic motive , one that finds both its source and its reward in its own exercise. The will to learn becomes a “ problem ” only under specialized circumstances...where a curriculum is set , stu-dents confined , and a path fixed. The problem exists not so much in learning itself , but in the fact that what the school... See more
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Jerome Bruner (Bruner, 1966):
there is a sickeningly pervasive idea in our culture, by the way, that a young woman can only become interesting and complex by experiencing untold quantities of pain — and so we seek this suffering in an attempt to become artistic, but only end up learning that we were operating from a flawed premise in the first place. pain is nothing but pain
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... See moresometimes, in the small, secret part of myself where i tuck away my worst impulses, i wished they had gone just a little further, wronged me just a little bit more clearly, because maybe then i wouldn’t feel quite so crazy about hurting so much. without laws broken or lines crossed, women’s pain is madness.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann Nov 21, 2021
being unclean doesn’t make you a bad person, just like being clean doesn’t make you a good person.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann, Mar 21, 2022
Fleabag: “I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat, what to like, what to hate, what to rage about, what to listen to, what band to like, what to buy tickets for, what to joke about, and what not to joke about. I want someone to tell me what to believe in, who to vote for, and love, and how to tell
... See moreMake your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
and the letter of the law exists not to enforce what is moral or good — rather, it exists to provide men with a line to toe. it functions not to ensure that men don’t do heinous things, but to make sure they can get away with heinous things by learning the cheat codes: fuck her on the day of her eighteenth birthday, make sure she can sit up
... See morei wondered, for a while, how the men who dated her didn’t see a kid playing dress-up when they looked into her eyes. it was only recently that i realized that they did.
—Rayne Fisher-Quann, Nov 21, 2021