Quotes About Awareness

when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that's self-protection.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn't feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

Most Whores are completely unaware of how important they are to society, and subsequently do not have the opportunity to learn how to be all-compassionate, all-loving, all-giving and all-receiving incarnations of the Goddess.

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed our minds that, like other people, we appear as man and wife wherever we go. This was a complete surprise for us, but we had no idea what to make of it. We laughed a lot.

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Unii oameni traiesc, iar altii ii contempla cum traiesc, eu ma numar printre cei care contempla. Dumneavoastra?

She has learned not to be nervous in rooms in which people take note of each other, weigh up, write down, write off, avoid, eye up. She doesn't dream, she is simply at rest. Others seek peace of mind, Miranda had peace of eye.

Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don't forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.

But one day I will want to know it and from that day on I will stay behind and fall back into yesterday. But it's not tomorrow yet. Before yesterday and tomorrow arrive, I have to silence them inside me. It is today. I am here and today.

You keep everything under observation and that's why you don't notice anything.

I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can't imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that's it.

And she wondered then how many amazing views she'd missed from the safety of her spot here at the bottom.

not as if they won't know the truth soon

The problem is, you're looking for faults from the first moment you meet a man." "I hate to disillusion you, but when they're as obvious as the San Andreas, they're not that hard to spot.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." —Alexis Carrel

until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

I know that life doesn't come with guarantees. We can only live the moment that's in front of us. I believe with all my heart that we should live that moment fully, embrace it without wasting even a second worrying about what might be beyond it.

It's what we take for granted that is actually most important to us.

The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.