Gaia Bachar
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Gaia Bachar
I am not sure that I exist, actually.
I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981
I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981
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During the Covid pandemic, Pete and I spoke by phone. In the beginning, I made the mistake of trying to advise him about how he could lift his depression. He had earlier gone to Vietnam to perform eye surgeries for those who were too poor to afford them. I told him he should do that again, since he found it so tremendously rewarding. I did not
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Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.
I always come back to the thought that we as women get crushes, feel this limerence, get obsessed when we don’t have enough creative outlets.
My favorite podcast wild geese said “a crush will take you places you wouldn’t go with a gun” and I think about that once a week at least.
So how do I get out of that state of being. How do I get rid of my
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Keep your distance from people who've made being wronged their identity. They're not looking for solutions, they're recruiting.
Never in my life has a video put into words something I have struggled to define for years…
The aggravating feeling of healing..
“Forget about being a Writer. Follow the impulse to write. Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb).”
Rob Henderson • On Writing
But women also possessed an organ of the highest biological – and social – value: the uterus. Possession of this organ defined the purpose of women: to bear and raise children. Knowledge about female biology centred around women’s capacity – and duty – to reproduce. Being biologically female defined and constrained what it meant to be a woman. And
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