With the primary elections constantly in the news and talk of politics impossible to escape, it is easy to understand what Anais Nin meant when she wrote:
“I don’t rave against politics. I ignore it.”
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Thinking for yourselves
Monday, July 30, 2007
Anais Nin wrote, “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
With all the recent hype over the You Tube presidential candidate debate, where Presidential hopefuls tackled topics such as the war in Iraq, abortion, gay marriage, and social security, it is more important than ever to seperate facts from opinions, in order to form your own.
An Introduction to Anais Nin
Monday, July 23, 2007
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977) is a French born writer of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish decent. While she studied psychoanalysis under Otto Rank and wrote avant-garde novels, she was best known for her personal journals written over 60 years. Though she was considered a feminist, Nin removed herself from the political associations of feminism focused on personal liberation.