I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
Simone de Beauvoir (via stoneyxochi)
Vali Myers, 1950s.
Me.
Reblogged from spleenetsottises
Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you’ll continue to be art even when he’s gone.
a masterpiece is still a masterpiece when the lights are off and the room is empty // charlotte geier
Truly powerful women don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage those who don’t give it to them.
Sherry Argov
A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can.
A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others.
A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others.
An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.
An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran by Nyux (via calloway)
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
Anna Quindlen
Keep smiling. I love you.
Reblogged from s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s
