Kathrin Radtke
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Kathrin Radtke
When you don’t know what to do, the first step isn’t figuring it out. It’s admitting that you don’t have to. Sit in the discomfort for a minute— seriously . Let it marinate.
ASH • What to Do With Your Life
In the story, there is a crane who tricks a man into thinking she is a woman so she can marry him. She loves him, but knows that he will not love her if she is a crane so she spends every night plucking out all of her feathers with her beak. She hopes that he will not see what she really is: a bird who must be cared for, a bird capable of flight, a... See more
CJ Hauser • The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
This, then, is the foundation of democracy. Lament outlawed, the Furies tamed and domesticated. The founding fathers of our current political system saw no way to make this system work without banishing or chaining unruly energies—energies invariably coded as female.
Eleanor Robins • A story about the dawn of democracy, the legal suppression of grief, and why politics without art is death
If the most significant feminine archetypes relate to motherhood, especially in the context of the natural world - Mother Earth being the most obvious of them all - then what do they have to do with me? If my womb-space is “broken” - those dysfunctional, painful periods as well as my failure to put that womb-space to the use for which it was
... See moreWhat is the feeling of old pain finally having the space and the freedom to be fully felt.
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And by the time I left him, I had learned enough about myself to understand that I would probably have subsumed myself entirely in motherhood, lost myself completely, if ever I’d had a child. I’d spent too much time worrying about my mother during my own childhood, always feeling that I was the one who had to take care of her. I was far too good at
... See moreHow to Discover What You Want & Actually Ask For It
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How to figure out what your desires are: Make a list of complaints. Often there is a desire hidden underneath. Make a list of every desire you can think of. Everything that comes up, especially if it is unrealistic.
The critic who doesn’t like your work is correct. He doesn’t like your work. This cannot be argued with. The critic who says that no one else will like your work is wrong. After all, you like your work. Someone else might like it too.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
What happens to a drawing when we dislike it?
I will demonstrate. I do not like this drawing.
Ah! Yet it survives your dislike! Astonishing!
Lynda Barry, Syllabus