Tag: freedom

Do you know what it is to burn and burn, and to know while burning, that you are freeing yourself from everything around you?

Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal
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But there’s no room at all for free spirits in modern academia, with its speech codes and humorless moralizing. So she makes two lives for herself, or three for all we know, or four, and in the end there’s no satisfaction in being multiple Solange St. Croixs instead of one.

Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell

In Westworld’s latest episode, “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” the only thing more horrifying than the breakdown of the system is the possibility of it remaining intact. 

[…] We’ve been expecting and hoping for the insurrection. But what if it never comes? Or worse, what if when it comes, it’s expected? “There are no accidents,” the Man in Black said to Charlotte, and we’re forced to consider, in horror, that he might be right.

Lili Loofbourow, Westworld recap: the omnipotent Robert Ford (contains spoilers)

I had buried in my head this idea that you only made a home for [a] husband and children. I didn’t see a lot of women making a permanent home for themselves; I didn’t think that way. And also, I was on the road, so I was always living out of suitcases and cardboard boxes when I was at home, and even though I now, to this day, live in the same apartment that I did then, it was more like a storage place than an apartment.

It was only after I was 50 that … I began to make a home — a nest — for myself. And I take such pleasure in it. I think in general, as a culture, we tend to think there are two choices: settling down or traveling. And actually you need both. … Birds need a nest and they still fly. It took me a while [to understand] that it wasn’t either/or — it was both.

Gloria Steinem, NPR interview