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“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

Donna J. Haraway
“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

Fanny Howe
“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

“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

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
“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

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