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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley (b. 30 August 1797)
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"This," I thought, "is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind compassionate and soft."
Mary Shelley, from The Last Man
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The Gothic world is fascinated by violent differences in power, and its stories are full of constraint, entrapment and forced actions. Scenes of extreme threat and isolation – either physical or psychological – are always happening or about to happen. A young woman in danger, such as the orphan Emily St Aubert in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) or Lucy Westenra in Dracula, is often at the centre of Gothic fiction. Against such vulnerable women are set the great criminals or transgressors, such as the villainous Montoni in The Mysteries of Udolpho or Count Dracula. Cursed, obscene or satanic, they seem able to break norms, laws and taboos at will. Sexual difference is thus at the heart of the Gothic, and its plots are often driven by the exploration of questions of sexual desire, pleasure, power and pain. It has a freedom that much realistic fiction does not, to speak about the erotic, particularly illegitimate or transgressive sexuality, and is full of same-sex desire, perversion, obsession, voyeurism and sexual violence. At times, as in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1796), Gothic can come close to pornography.
John Bowen, Professor of 19th century literature at the University of York
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Women as a gender - not as some individuals - are by definition excluded from [power]. You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently. […] It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession. What I have in mind is the ability to be effective, to make a difference in the world, and the right to be taken seriously, together as much as individually.
Mary Beard, Women in Power
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I often think about God as about the sea. Power and calm. Calm of grandeur. Calm of the force of nature. A violent calm.
—Anna Kamienska, from “The Notebook 1965- 1972,” Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska (Paraclete Pr, 2007)
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Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin (born on this day in 1924)
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I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
Nikos Kazantzakis, from The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises
Source: booksnquotes.com
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A necklace made of jaguar claws, from the Mato Grosso of Brazil. Necklaces such as these are commonly symbols of power for the warrior or shaman. The jaguar is important in the myths of most Native Southern Americans as the giver of hunting and fire and, with them, of society to man. Frequently, the warrior or shaman is said to be able to transform himself into a jaguar.
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought... Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in prayer.
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin, No Name in the Street
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I teach a class called ‘Decolonize Your Diet,’ and I talk about the Spaniards arriving in Mesoamerica. One of the first things they tried to change—in addition to religion— was the way people ate. They introduced wheat and tried to make eating bread something that was seen as more valuable than eating corn. They outlawed amaranth, and in South America they outlawed quinoa.
I tell my students to think about how the dominant powers are invested in controlling what their subjects eat, and then to take that concept from the 1500s to our contemporary era and ask themselves, ‘What are the powers that be wanting us to eat right now? Where are all the food subsidies going? How is that influencing what we’re eating? Who’s benefiting and who’s suffering because of that?’ For students, drawing those connections is really powerful, and it gives them a tangible way to analyze relations of power.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via booksqouted)
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FREEDOM MONEY HONESTY
Love, Beauty, Youth
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Money friends power
semiautomatix
Success health money *twerks*
Intelligence, Love, Time
I saw six words simultaneously dammit
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Love, Beauty, Time
Humour, Honesty, Intelligence
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Everything runs off the same energy system. Really Powerful image set.
Source: infinity-imagined
Every sorceress is
A pragmatist at heart; nobody sees essence who can't
Face limitation. If I wanted only to hold you
I could hold you prisoner.
Louise Glück, Circe’s Power
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Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
Henry Miller (via arreter)