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“We cannot do things differently, we cannot carve out different ways of relating to others, until we can take responsibility for what we have done and those we have injured in the process.”
Shellen Lubin

Lana Bastašić
“She would say you can’t have a person. But she would be wrong. You can own people for embarrassingly little.”
Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

Robin Wall Kimmerer
“But I think I cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the innate sovereignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and reducing the possessed. -- Barbara Kingsolver writes, 'It's going to take the most selfless kind of love to do right by what we cherish and give it the protection to flourish outside our possessive embrace'.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“Integrity, America. You lack integrity. The degree of distance between how we want to see ourselves and how we are is enormous. Integrity. Individually and as a people. We lack integrity.

As an individual, I have long known that the only hope for integrity is not only the effort expended to live up to our word, but the willingness to own how and where we have not, and to hold ourselves accountable for the consequences of that.”
Shellen Lubin

Margaret Atwood
“But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It’s difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death.
Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Nora Ephron
“Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me.
Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much.
Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”
Nora Ephron, Heartburn

“I can’t explain to you the joy I feel knowing it’s all mine. That you are all mine, that your body is all mine.”
E.L Beth, Redemption

“Passion needs to be at the heart of the project. Passion is infectious, so the more people who are enthusiastic about the project the better. Where and when a solution or answer does not easily present itself, there needs to be enough belief and energy for the project that still drives the production forward. Without the passion to go through whatever it is that will be thrown your way, you will not make it to opening night.”
Teddy Hayes, The Guerrilla Guide To Being A Theatrical Producer

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“From a systems design and capacity sharing perspective — sometimes facilitating access to resources is better than facilitating ownership of resources.”
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

Nenia Campbell
“People love beautiful things, but it isn’t enough to simply love them from afar. They want to possess them, own them. Even if—in the case of living things—the cost of ownership is that it can no longer be alive.”
Nenia Campbell, Raise the Blood

Herman Melville
“Is it not a saying in every one's mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish? What is yonder undetected villain's marble mansion with a doorplate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish? What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish? What is the Archbishop of Savesoul's income of £100,000 seized from the scant bread and cheese of hundreds of thousands of broken-backed laborers (all sure of heaven without any of Savesoul's help) what is that globular 100,000 but a Fast-Fish? What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all of these, is not Possession the whole of the law?”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Margaret Atwood
“But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It’s difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Sukant Ratnakar
“What's the meaning of ownership after you cease to exist?”
Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

Anthony Horowitz
“Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...”
Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“I love you is all.” He said kissing her mouth. “And I want you all to myself.”
E.L Beth, Retaliation

Binod Shankar
“Most of the time your employer doesn’t really care about your career. All you are to them is a skilled and loyal resource. So don’t expect HR to regularly track a file marked “X’s Career.” Grasping this harsh reality should be the beginning of change.”
Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“What many producers don’t understand is that lawyers by definition are not trained in solving business problems. They are trained in interpreting and propagating the law based on a set of precedents that have been laid down before. And as each branch of law is an entity unto itself, an entertainment lawyer that normally works in music may not necessarily be useful when dealing with theatre.
 If you want to do a deal that might involve some creative thinking, you would do better to talk with someone that makes deals for a living, for example maybe a salesperson who has developed “outside of the box” thinking in order to make their business rise above that of the competition.
 In my experience lawyers are not by definition the most creative business thinkers.”
Teddy Hayes, The Guerrilla Guide To Being A Theatrical Producer

Carlos Wallace
“I measure “success” by my least happy employee. A satisfied employee is great, but a disgruntled employee is a sign of work to do!”
Carlos Wallace

Lucy Parsons
“When will the people see the real cause of all their woe—the private ownership of the means of life?
When will the masses learn that property is theirs and theirs only who has produced it—earned it?”
Lucy Parsons

“When you learn to fall in love with your breath. With the rise and fall of your chest. With the purity of the present moment in all its heartbreaking or heart-opening glory. When you fall in love with whatever the moment presents you, the world is yours for the taking and the crown upon your head fits true.”
Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

Sukant Ratnakar
“Throughout our life, we chase ownership to disown everything one day.”
Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

Holly Black
“The High King Balekin is a friend to my lady's Court,' Cardan says, silver-tongued in his silver fox mask. He wears an easy half smile. He's speaking the language of privilege, speaking it with his drawling tone, with the looseness of his limbs, as though he thinks he owns everything he can see.”
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

Henry Cloud
“Our lives are not just about the 'outside' circumstances. We participate in our external circumstances. We may not cause them, but we can control how we respond to them.”
Henry Cloud, How to Get a Date Worth Keeping

Henry Cloud
“The Bible teaches that God provides, even for the birds of the air, but the birds have to leave the nest and fly around to find the mosquitoes or the seeds God provides! There is some activity required on their part.

"Lady, if you don't want to marry the FedEx man or a Jehovah's Witness, you had better go outside!”
Henry Cloud, How to Get a Date Worth Keeping

Alistair Mackay
“It's so stupid, this idea that land can be owned. Land, which existed long before people... It doesn't belong to us. If anything, the soil owns us. It lets us move around for a bit and then it takes us back.”
Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

“I don’t care, I love you, I want the world to know I love you.”
E.L Beth, Redemption

Dan Chaon
“There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone.”
Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

Hernan Diaz
“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
Hernan Diaz, Trust

Anthony T. Hincks
“Ownership has no self worth.”
Anthony T. Hincks

Sylvia Day
“Are you going to punish me with pleasure?” he asked quietly. “Because you can. You can bring me to my knees, Eva.”
Sylvia Day, Bared to You