"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, ( Read more... )

"That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them."

- Dorothy Parker -

In 2011, ( Read more... )

‎"You cannot save people. You can only love them."

- Anaïs Nin -

"It's very interesting sharing a house with a group of people who obviously see things, hear things, think about things in a vastly different way."

- Edward Gorey -
(on living with cats)

"I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge."

- J.R.R. Tolkien -

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

- Pablo Picasso -

If you're in Chicago, there's a great event this Saturday and Sunday down in the Little Village area called Meeting of Styles, which is a group of graffiti artists who have had some buildings donated to them on which to practice their craft ( Read more... )

"To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the ( Read more... )

"Every sacred place is the place where eternity shines through time."

- Joseph Campbell -