Aura

“The rifts in this ancient wall continue to be patched with exhortations to women to avoid challenging the norm even if it means faking orgasm and sacrificing honesty in their intimate relationships with men. In the past we have been willing to pay this price; whether we should continue to do so is question for individuals; not historians, to decide.”
― Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction

“Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being