“Start asking the men in the industry how they’re going to change things and stop asking women to bare our souls.”

Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna On How Mixing Music and Politics Saved Her Career

Everyone knows a heart is just responsible for filling a thing with blood, except it never fills love with blood because no one can do that because love comes when it wants and it leaves when it wants and it gets on an airplane and goes wherever it wants and no one can ever ask love not to do that, because that is part of the risk of love, the worthwhile risks of it, that it will leave if it feels like leaving and that is the cost of it and it is worth it, worth it, worth it.

Catherine Lacy, The Healing Center

“Some of us are Norman Mailer, but others of us are middle-aged Portland housewives.”

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Daily Routine: The Discipline That Fueled Her Imagination