April 2012
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“Before you speak ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it...”
– Shirdi Sai Baba (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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“Your parents don’t want what is best for you. They want what is good for you,...”
– “What They Don’t Tell You At Graduation” via the WSJ (via nicetrybro)
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“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
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“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept...”
– William Faulkner, The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family (via serialstranger)
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“I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still...”
– An Addendum, On Rape Jokes. (via chloerayneee)
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“She is ancient history, her name erased by a hundred other names since; the girl...”
– Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White (via christinecs)
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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath (via katelizabeth)
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