December 2011
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“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we...”
– Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus (via infinitives)
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feminist slut: privilege; a poem for men who don't... →
feministslut:
[TW: RAPE]
dopestdee:
privilege is simple: going for a pleasant stroll after dark, not checking the back of your car as you get in, sleeping soundly, speaking without interruption, and not remembering dreams of rape, that follow you all day, that woke you crying, and privilege is not…
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“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?”
– Emily Dickenson
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via myquotelibrary)
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via infinitives)
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“Vigorous minds are with difficulty restrained within the trammels of authority;...”
– Mary Hays
“Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “Frost at Midnight” (via the-final-sentence)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via 99lions)
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it...”
– James Baldwin (via myquotelibrary)
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“Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted;...”
– Henry Miller (via fallere)
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“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden,...”
– Joss Whedon (via myquotelibrary)
