“I begin with a personal cultural and human cataclysm. Something I am obsessed with.”— David Shields, thenervousbreakdown.com
“In a world that is primarily based on Instagram likes, we’ve often lost the value of a person face-to-face.”— Brittany Romano, usmagazine.com
“Are we celebrating the right heroes? Are we treating the right people well? Or are our sympathies misguided?”— Myles Little, businessinsider.com
“If you don’t get a good four hours of flow to yourself a day, putting more hours in isn’t going to make up for it. It’s just not true that if you stay at the office longer you get more work done.”— Jason Fried, Steve Glaveski, hbr.org
“Instagram is democratising poetry. For gatekeepers, who work via western frameworks, it is clearly awful. But women of colour, LGBT+ and other marginalised people now have platforms to speak up, and that is not a literary journal. They, who want to make these platforms disappear, generalise the work…”— Nikita Gill, Surbhi Gupta, indianexpress.com
“If William Shakespeare was alive today, he would be on Instagram”— Harman Kaur, Jessica Wong, cbc.ca
“I’ve always thought that writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect. It’s not something one can explain and chat about very easily: certainly not about the making of it. It’s very resistant to explanation. It comes from a place that is occult, in the sense of being hidden. It attends to…”— Robin Robertson, Rachel Cooke, theguardian.com
“To enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into “high” orgasm, you absolutely need to feel safe; safe from “bad stress,” in the sense of knowing you are entering a trance state in the presence of someone who will protect you if necessary at the very least, and not endanger you or…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“One could say that she actually becomes, biochemically, a wild woman or a maenad. She becomes so disinhibited and impervious to pain that it is as if she is in a state of altered consciousness. Women in “high” orgasm go more deeply into this trance state than at any other time. Judgment is suspended…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The full melting response or “high orgasm” in women—which I would define (though our language around female sexual response is so inadequate) as that kind of orgasm that most intensely induces the most complete possible trance state and that most involves all the body systems, so that afterward the…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The autonomic nervous system also responds to a woman’s sense of safety or danger. It sends the signals to the brain and then to the body that one is safe, so one can relax, eat, and digest; or relax and sleep; or relax and make love.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“That’s what explained vaginal versus clitoral orgasms? Neural wiring? Not culture, not upbringing, not patriarchy, not feminism, not Freud?”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“I, along with millions and millions of other people, am the victim of a society which aspires to material success in order to fill the emptiness it feels.”— Sinead O'Connor, books.google.com
“Intelligent people have spent far too much time talking about robots. What we need is fewer people imagining what robots could do and more people thinking about racism.”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“I am reminded that when untruths go unaddressed for too long, they can become fixed.”— Deray Mckesson, twitter.com
“Mobile dating went mainstream about five years ago; by 2012 it was overtaking online dating. In February, one study reported there were nearly 100 million people—perhaps 50 million on Tinder alone—using their phones as a sort of all-day, every-day, handheld singles club, where they might find a sex…”— Nancy Jo Sales, vanityfair.com
“Our culture is so overwhelmed by the concept of females as sexual beings that whenever it comes to light, it is immediately seen as the only facet of a woman. It's perfectly fine for us to see women as sexual objects, but once she becomes a sexual subject, she can't be anything else. She can't be la…”— Isabella Milch, theodysseyonline.com
“Power Rectitude Respect Affection Wealth Well-being Enlightenment Skill”— Harold D. Lasswell, wjh.harvard.edu
“There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.”— Phil McGraw, m.imdb.com