does anyone want to get together and fall in love. after work
“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”
— Maya Angelou
Something in her was violently sensual, alive, earthy.
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
obsessed w this
("Dostoevsky as lover", Henrik Karlsson)
"Who ever got the idea that we could have pleasure without pain? It's promoted rather widely in this world, and we buy it. But pain and pleasure go together; they are inseparable. They can be celebrated. They are ordinary. Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."
-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart (1996)