The Most Vital Right Is The Right To Love And Be Loved.

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

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

— Natalie Diaz, Manhattan Is a Lenape Word

“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

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”

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