Wicca.
Paganism.
Kabbalah.
Chakras.
Gemstone Healing.
Astrology.
Numerology.
Egyptian and Greek Mythology.
Reincarnation.
Atlantis and Mu.
Vampires.
UFOS.
David Icke.
Project Bluebook.
Project Monarch.
Psychotronics.
MK-Ultra.
Satanic Ritual Abuse.
Multiple Personality Disorder.
Sociopathy.
Motherhood.
Creative Writing.
Literature.
Anne Sexton.
Sylvia Plath.
Forensics.
Criminology.
Serial Killers.
BDSM.
Goddesses:
Inanna. Ishtar. Asherah.
Lillith. Aastarte.
Random Stuff:
Eating meat is creepy. Our government sucks. Poetry and hot tea make life worth living.
Favorite Historical Figures:
Henry David Thoreau. Emily Dickinson. Joan of Arc. Mary Shelley. Albert Einstein. Leonardo da Vinci. Aliester Crowley. The Baal Shem Tov. Rebbe Zushe.
Favorite Poets:
Sylvia Plath. Anne Sexton. da levy. Charles Bukowski. Harold Norse. Bucky Sinister. Louise Gluck. Rita Dove. nn levant. Nick Anderson.
Turn Ons:
Dreadlocks. Piercings. Pink Hair. Poetry.
And most importantly: BRAINS!
Turn Offs:
Being told: "your boobs look just like my Grandma's except she always wore a bra." Yeah, you know who you are.
I Collect:
Sock Monkeys. Frankensteins. Rocks. Books. Ex-Boyfriends. And, now, Turtles!
I'd like to meet:
Outcasts. Misfits. Freaks.
Eccentrics. Savants. Hermits. AntiHeros.
And I love Turtles!
Music:
music that's alright:
misfits. mazzy star. john lennon. neil young. dead kennedys. 7 seconds. ramones. sex pistols. circle jerks. natalie merchant. 10,000 maniacs. indigo girls. joni mitchell. bob marley. janis joplin. bob dylan. don mclean. marvin gaye. jimi hendrix. leonard cohen. regina spektor. violent femmes. pink. the beatles. eminem. and jewel. [yeah, i like jewel... so what?!]
Movies:
Heathers. Hackers. The Secretary. Silence of the Lambs.
Television:
Dexter. Cold Case. Criminal Minds.
Books:
On Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau
Children of the Matrix
David Icke
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud, and the Great Secret of Freemasonry
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
Edited by Alan Kaufman
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Ararat
Louise Gluck
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
Princess: A True Story Behind the Veil in Saudia Arabia
Jean Sasson
Women Who Run with Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Love is a Dog from Hell
Charles Bukowski
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
Heroes:
The Broken Ones.
What Famous Leader Are You?
Beauty. Brains. And a Complete Psycho.
- My Dream Girl.
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I wonder if I’m destined to drag around the past like a discarded placenta? I wonder how far do I boil back in order to reclaim my self? I ask how many pieces did I lose along the way? Where do I find them? Can I put them back? How many times do you glue a broken vase before you toss it?â€
Julie Gregory, in Sickened.
“Heart surgery, iodine injections, tubes shoved, slits sliced, blood drawn. These things change a kid. At the cellular level. You forget what you were like before they cut you, before they shaved you. The past drifts away; inaccessible. You only look to the future when they’ll find what’s wrong so it can be all over; the tests, the trying, the meds you swallow without knowing why.â€
Julie Gregory
One thing I REALLY REALLY hate is the focus on body image and the "cult of thinness" in our society.
Here are some relevant quotes by some kick-ass women:
"A woman's body is the battlefield where she fights for liberation."
Germain Greer
"If we place pornography and the tyranny of slenderness alongside one another we have the two most significant obsessions of our culture, and both of them focused upon a woman's body."
Kim Chernin
"The proof that beauty is political lies in what women feel when they eat too much: GUILT. Why should guilt be the operative emotion, and female fat be a moral issue articulated with words like good and bad?"
Naomi Wolf
"A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about FEMALE BEAUTY but an obsession about FEMALE OBEDIENCE ."
Naomi Wolf
"Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful."
Germaine Greer
"A beautiful, slender woman who 'kicks ass' may find media approval, but an unshaven woman lawyer who makes partner before her male colleagues is a 'granola dyke.' The real message to women, I believe is that powerful women are embraced only if they are thin, sexy, young, and beautiful."
Olivia Kahlo
"Men are exposed to male fashion models but do not see them as role models. Why do women react so strongly to nothing, really.... images, scraps of paper?"
Naomi Wolf
"As a way of inducing them to buy products of no use or value, women have been deliberately effected with Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Conditions that practically all women 'suffer from' are spoken of as unsightly and abnormal, to make women feel that parts of their bodies, perhaps their whole bodies, are defective and should be worked on, even surgically altered."
Germaine Greer
"If we were to acknowledge that sexuality is personal and unique, it would become unwieldy. Making sexiness into something simple, quantifiable makes it easier to explain and to market. If you remove the human factor from sex and make it about stuff big fake boobs, bleached blonde hair, long nails, poles, thongs then you can sell it. Suddenly, sex requires shopping; you need plastic surgery, peroxide, a manicure, a mall."
Ariel Levy
"People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. I think that's wrong. This culture struggles unsuccessfully with pornography because it is also about men's cruelty to women, and about the pleasure that men sometimes take in that cruelty. And that is much more difficult for everyone to face."
Robert Jensen
"No woman was put on this earth to be hurt or humiliated
in order to facilitate male masturbation."
Gail Dines
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
William James
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
Confucius