Katelyn

“For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.”
― Susan McClary, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

“Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.”
― bell hooks

“I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts