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literally stoppp this "im just a girl!" shit. well grow the fuck up. be an adult

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

“Evil destroys even itself.”

— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.

I am a terrible combination of “whatever happens, happens” and “If everything doesn’t go according to plan, I will vaporize”

mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be.

“The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

— Emma Goldman, “The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation”, Anarchism and Other Essays

“The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

— Emma Goldman, “The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation”, Anarchism and Other Essays

August 17, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

huge fan of reading and learning, but also an even bigger fan of sleeping and being unconscious.

“Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.”

— Voltaire, Oeuvres de Voltaire: Lettres

“It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”

— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

"be not afraid"

demanding

you have no right to control another person's feelings

does not provide a productive alternative

"when you hide behind that rock I feel as though you don't appreciate the fact that I came all this way to deliver the word of god"

statement of fact

not pushy

opens conversation to productive compromise

emotionally aware

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

— Mark Twain

— Natalie Diaz, Manhattan Is a Lenape Word

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Goodbye Austen girl summer, hello Brontë girl fall

the feminine urge to play dumb (strategically)

Craving one of those long hugs where you both feel warm and safe, and neither of you really want to let go

spent too long thinking I’m ugly … so much brain space… like when mitski said “your body doesn’t exist to be looked at. it exists to DO, go places, let you exist! imo I don’t wanna waste all my time preserving it for viewing”