​Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. 
— Jose Ortega y Gasset

​what we will become
waits in us like an ache.
— Lucille Clifton

​What more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
— Richard Corliss

​The nakedness of woman is the work of God. 
— William Blake

​Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you,
say what you've got to say and say it hot.
— DH Lawrence 

​Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
— D.H. Lawrence

​And now that you're here be brave.
Be everyway alive.
— Peter Gizzi

A woman’s body always stands on the outskirts of town, verging on uncivilization... half of its whole being is devoted to remembering how to live in the woods.
This is why Witch, this is why Whore, this is why Unlucky, this is why Unclean.
This is why attempts to govern the female body always have a feeling of last resort, because the female body is fundamentally ungovernable. 

• — Patricia Lockwood
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