Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
saracampbell.co
self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling. And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of our capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it b lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible and does not have to be called marriage, nor... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power
Should women have to do this emotional work? Absolutely not — and most don’t have the capacity to. But my decade of being pushed to the extreme in this regard has enabled me to feel fully comfortable setting boundaries to the support I provide. In defining my own capacity, I am able to shape this skill into something that serves me.
Molly Mielke • Feeling seen · Molly Mielke
In these fractured, post-truth times, the qualities that people increasingly seek out, value or pay for are authenticity, individuality, inventiveness, uniqueness and meaning .
Do you Fit the Way Finder/Mender/Sensitive/Outlier/Maverick Profile?
Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now."
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
I’d never met a woman like Pauline and had met her at a time when I feared not one woman like her existed in all the world. In some way I had never known how to express, I’d feared I would have to become the first of my kind, whatever my kind was, should I be allowed to survive—that which history has never seen before. Instead, here Pauline lived;
... See moreAlexander Chee • The Queen of the Night
“According to Biblical myth, human beings were at one with all the dumb animals of the earth until we ate of the Tree of Knowledge, whereupon we became a race divided against itself. On the one hand, the gift of consciousness brought the glory of independence; on the other, the punishment of separateness. Now we were proud but lonely. The
... See moreWomen often find themselves trapped in cycles of self-pity, martyrdom, victimhood, and defiance because, in the absence of a secure self, these identities become their “drugs.” They offer a temporary sense of identity but rob us of our true power.
The solution to this addiction is always agency. Each ghost is a passive state, and each jewel—a life... See more
The solution to this addiction is always agency. Each ghost is a passive state, and each jewel—a life... See more
The Ghosts That Haunt Women – And the Jewels That Transform Them - Nicole Daedone
the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can
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