Kathrin Radtke
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Kathrin Radtke
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
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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
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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
And yet, though I know this, I frequently struggle with the fear that by prioritising quantity I “waste” good ideas in unsatisfactory work. This is of course, and it is clear to me after having just typed it out, yet another instance of me trying to protect the potential of an idea rather than its reality .
giulia spadoni riva • you love your potential too much
I believe I am being confronted with this impossible task: making a perfect idea into a perfect creation . What I fail to recognise is that the idea only seems perfect precisely because it has no counterpart in reality .
giulia spadoni riva • you love your potential too much
“Sometimes, madness seems like the only possible response to the insanity of the civilised world; sometimes, holding ourselves together is not an option, and the only way forward is to allow ourselves to fall apart.”
- Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted