If we are capable of keeping ourselves captive to the concepts of things

doesn’t that mean we have an equal capacity to freeing ourselves by our ability to conceptualize anything

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me—the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

"[the] feminization of society. The use of feminine tendencies as a positive force to change the world ... We can evolve rather than revolt."
—Yoko Ono