Pussy Quotes

“I am the definition of a powerful woman. I love with my whole body, heart, and soul. I say whatever the fuck is on my mind. I make huge mistakes proudly. I rage with as much passion as I grieve. I live my poetry, my art.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“So many of us were taught to keep a lid on anything and everything outrageous. To just turn it off. We turn off our life force, turn off our feelings, turn off our sensuality, and as a consequence, we turn off our power.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“The feminine is the feeling part of us, our deepest intuition, our sense of community and connection. Additionally, it is a sense of spiritual morality and consciousness. The feminine is life. It may shock you to hear that she does not care about production, accomplishment, domination, assertiveness, or winning. Those are masculine values. On the contrary, she favors enjoyment, inclusion, surrender, and sustainability.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“How about cunt? It just feels too harsh, even though the etymology of the word is pretty impressive. The word cuneiform, which is the most ancient form of writing, derives from kunta—which translates to “female genitalia” in ancient Sumerian. Kunta also means “woman” in several Near Eastern and African languages, and its alternate spelling, quna, is the root of the word queen. Kunta is also the root of kundalini, which means “life force.” Pretty powerful, huh?”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Being shut down from our grief and rage deprives us of living our emotional and creative power. The practice of Swamping gives us that power back. We admit and embody the rupture. We roll around on the floor, rend our garments, throw our bodies into it. We experience and savor the full range of our feelings. If we want to live healthy lives as women, we need the space to grieve our asses off as often as we feel moved. Swamping gives us that opportunity.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“But here—in the midst of this unimaginable loss—is where I found it. The gift in the rupture. Rupture’s gift is the chance to feel the pain that we could not afford to feel before. In rupture, this pain becomes ours. Because we have longed. Because we have loved.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“I had never considered myself beautiful, but I decided that I could change my mind.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“When she designs, and then lives, her own destiny, a woman naturally sets right everything wrong in our world.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“They had to learn to see me as a sensual woman who desired a full, passionate life—not just a mother whose best years were behind her and whose future was limited to caring for grandchildren and other family members”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“There is no human alive today who was not created and held inside the living altar of a woman.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“The curve of my spine was so elegant. I felt deeply moved that, in all the years of having these shoulders, this spine, this back, I had never noticed how it was a line of poetry—an overture to the magnificence of the human body. I realized in that moment that women have no clue about our own beauty; no clue about the connection between pleasure and time; no clue about this deep, delicious, endlessly replenishing source of divinity within each of us.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Living one’s desire is an adventure like no other. There are no safety nets, no seat belts. In fact, when you plight your troth to your desires, you’re kind of asking for it. You’re grabbing the hand of the Great Pussy in the Sky and asking to be broken open. Asking to be remade. Asking for the current version of you to be shattered and reassembled into the woman you were born to become. This is part of the life cycle of what it means to be a woman. Just as the seasons are cyclical, with winter as necessary as spring, and the sun and moon move in cycles, with times of light and times of darkness, so moves the body and soul of a woman. We each require the dark night of the soul as much as we require the light. The word I use to describe this undoing? Rupture.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Whether we realize it or not, we women spend a lot of our lives trying to “get ours.” To get what we deserve, get what we want, get what we think we can’t have. The feeling of scarcity that comes from our sense of lack is a result of thinking that the only way to be in relationship is by serving our partners. But when we reverse that idea and learn how to maintain our own radiance, the desperation to “get ours” falls away. In other words, we’ve finally learned how to get ours. As a result we feel powerful and confident in all areas of our life.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Women have a tendency to think that sacrificing ourselves will serve the relationship, but the opposite is actually true. The more we plug into what turns us on, the more of our light we can shine on those we love.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Rupture allows the part of a woman that she has outgrown to die and fall away. It updates the parts of us that feel helpless; like we need someone to do it for us. It forces us to take a seat firmly inside of our power. It is required for us to grow.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Negative attention desecrates our altar. But we women have been giving ourselves negative attention so consistently, and for so long, that we do not even see it as a problem.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom. To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain, but is also, essentially, part of the female soul. — NAOMI WOLF”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“I felt the unmistakable connection between me and every other living breathing person and everything on earth. I was the energetic current, the conduit, the source. I was the wind in the trees, the sunshine, the ocean waves. I was not only a part of the energetic fabric of the universe, I was a contributor.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“We have no experience prioritizing our own joy or making an investment in ourselves. But it is very easy to say yes to responsibility and obligation. We are highly motivated when we can be of service to someone else.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“Rupture is a natural part of life, and a natural consequence of desire. For whenever we get something we want, we must say good-bye to what we had. No matter how dissatisfying it might have been, it was familiar. Perhaps you desire a relationship, for example. When you finally meet someone and fall in love, your life as a single person must end. Just because you’ve gotten what you wanted doesn’t mean you’re going to feel uncomplicated joy. There will be a sense of loss as your former life disappears before your eyes. To move ahead as the happy half of a happy couple, you’ll need to mourn, even briefly, the world of being single. But”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“loving, instead of depleting and effortful. Some pussification practices have become daily rituals. I take a bath instead of a shower because it makes me feel more relaxed and beautiful. I use lavender-scented Epsom salts because they smell nicer than the plain ones. After the bath I use coconut oil on my skin; it smells beautiful and nourishes the skin deeply.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“our dreams, our feelings. In short, it’s the absence of pussy. The feminine is the feeling part of us, our deepest intuition, our sense of community and connection. Additionally, it is a sense of spiritual morality and consciousness. The feminine is life. It may shock you to hear that she does not care about production, accomplishment, domination, assertiveness, or winning. Those are masculine values. On the contrary, she”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

“The world is designed to take the wind out of a woman’s sails. To fill her with fear about all the ways she is inadequate. We each need the focus and determination of warrior women to fight the tide of self-hatred that comes from living in a culture that devalues us.”
― Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation