3 Quotes & Sayings By Anastasia Aukeman

Anastasia lives in the Netherlands, where she also runs her own company. She has an intense passion for teaching, writing and learning about meditation techniques. Her service-oriented approach to life is reflected in her work as a writer, teacher and mentor. Anastasia is author of the popular meditation blog "The Wellbeing Nexus".

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Aukeman quotes Norman Mailer:"No wonder then that these have been the years of conformity and depression. A stench of fear has come out of every pore of American life and we suffer from a collective failure or nerve. The only courage, with rare exceptions, that we have been witness to, has been the isolated courage of isolated people." Welcome to Painterland (2016) Chapter 4, p.108 Anastasia Aukeman
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This not to say that the men and women associated with the Rat Bastard Protective Association had freed themselves from the powerful hold of established gender roles on their lives. Shirley Burman, Joan Brown, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, and Joanna McClure most frequently provided the practical component of the vision they shared with their spouses; that is, the women all worked for a living.. As Càndida Smith observed, the 'contradictions of this imaginary society fell most acutely upon the women, for.. they carried the burden of 'holding things together'. . Anastasia Aukeman