Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau (via primalpalette)
You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday. You know those people who live for the weekends? They’re wishing their life away. You have to find something worth living for or else you’ll look back and realize you’ve wasted your life away.
— Drew Marvin, English Teacher (via isleofviewblog)
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
— Sylvia Plath (via apathie)
I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again.
— Tom Waits (via petit-poids)
What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term ‘mangina.’ Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.
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Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters
By Jessica Valenti
(via suzywire)
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
— Charles Bukowski (via girlwithoutwings)
You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp massage at the place where you get your haircut, people who are jealous of you, an ex who won’t stop texting you when they’re drunk, Twitter followers, happiness maybe sorta, someone to buy you lunch at a fancy restaurant, a mentor who can tell you what the hell to do with your life, a reliable internet connection, a reliable human connection, a gift card to the grocery store, dinner parties with friends where everyone will pretend to have their crap together for just one night, a nice flirty text message to wake up to every morning for the rest of your life, for everyone to like you even if you don’t like anyone, and one of those nights that doesn’t end till 9 AM and reminds you what it feels like to be young and alive.
— Ryan O’Connell, What 20-Somethings Want on Thought Catalog (via nikad)
vampishly: Slut shaming
Women of the world, please for all that is good, STOP DOING IT.
Stop calling a woman who is confident in her sexuality a whore.
Stop assuming a woman with children by multiple fathers is a slut.
Stop judging the character of a woman based on how tight her dress is.
Stop thinking that just because a lady has a date with one man tonight and another tomorrow that she is a ho.
Stop lumping your own people into the inane Madonna/whore caricatures that the media and corporations have made billions off of.
Stop tearing other women down because of your own half ass insecurities and ideas of how we’re suppose to behave.
Now, clearly my post isn’t exclusive to men (any man who feels as strongly as I do was raised right), but it saddens me deeply to see women tearing other women down. You owe it to yourself, to your daughters, to your friends, to your mothers, to all the women who had to fight for our right to vote to think independent, clearly, and unbiasedly.There was a time when we were sold off for the biggest chunk of land. We couldn’t convey our ideas, had no control of our bodies, had no say in our government, and our only value was as baby dispensers! Every time you belittle a woman for simply doing what she feels works for her, you set us back.
Do take the opportunity to reserve judgment of a woman by getting to know her.
Do assume that any woman who enjoys being sexual has great confidence in herself and strive to ascertain a similar level of confidence for yourself.
Do define yourself by what makes YOU happy rather than what people think should make you happy.
Do call another woman out when you hear the words slut, whore, ho comes out her mouth by telling her she’s perpetuating a viscous cycle.
Do pass this on in the hopes that maybe ONE person who reads it will stop, think, process, and absorb this information. Even if it’s only one person who changes their perception of how to view women, it’s still one more on OUR side.
A good television show writer understands that Oscar Wilde wasn’t kidding when he said, “I can resist anything but temptation.” Drama holds its audience in a perpetual state of anticipation, joyful in the knowledge that answers will be doled out only sparingly, that no resolution will ever be as powerful as the growing desire for it.
Theater and film do this for a few hours; television can do it for years. Audiences form an intimacy with television that they do not have with other visual mediums, not because television comes into their homes but because television comes into their heads. And stays there. To “watch” a series, one must interact with it, carry the characters and plotlines around in between episodes, consciously or unconsciously thinking about what will happen next, talking about it with friends or, nowadays, taking the pulse of other viewers via the Internet.
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Critic’s Notebook: The side effects of binge television (LA Times)
This quote is a bit lengthy, but I thought it so spot-on that it must be shared.
(via stoppretendingthereisaplot)
This is the same reason that I love watching tv.
There’s nothing wrong with sex, people.
- Having sex every day.
- Saving sex for your wedding night.
- Never having sex.
- Having sex with different people.
- Having sex with one person.
- Having sex with a person of your same gender.
- Loving sex.
- Hating sex.
- Being loud.
- Being quiet.The only thing wrong with sex?
When it’s not consensual.
Because that’s not sex. That’s rape.
Women do not inherently desire to have children, and it’s ridiculous to assume that the women you know do.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (via girlinlondon)
