#lit bit

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

What if states of mind that extend beyond the norm were nurtured instead of inhibited? Acknowledging people with extraordinary mental and emotional perspectives as not only valid but also valuable members of society, not despite but because of their exceptional mental and emotional condition, is a key element of an ideal feminist society.

It is because a war, any war, doesn't seem as if it can be stopped that people become less responsive to the horrors. Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

IS A CHAIR FINELY MADE TRAGIC OR COMIC? IS THE PORTRAIT OF MONA LISA GOOD IF I DESIRE TO SEE IT? IF NOT, WHY NOT?

If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

they thought I had guts that I knew no fear but they had it all wrong. it was just that I was frightened of many more important things.

People just can't stand not knowing something, she tells me. Especially men can't bear not climbing every mountain, mapping everywhere. Labeling everything. Peeing on every tree and then never calling you back.