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“The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.”
― Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

“According to a Kabbalistic rabbi, in the Messianic age people will no longer quarrel with others but only with themselves.”
― Fanny Howe, The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Violence is the method by which the ruthless few can subdue the passive many. Nonviolence is the method by which the active many can overcome the ruthless few.”
― Jonathan Schell, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People

“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”
― Donna Haraway

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
― Cynthia Occelli

“There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet