March 2012
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"Real women have curves."
Shut your ignorant mouth. You are not a feminist crusader. The only criteria for being female is having a vagina (and ovaries and a uterus). “Real women have curves” is just as elitist and degrading as declaring that “real women wear a size zero,” or the more accurate “real women only buy clothing from Baby Gap because they are so thin that they may die at any...
“Oh I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and...”
– Dylan Thomas, November or December 1936 From The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
“An act like this is prepared within the silence of the heart, as is a great work...”
– Albert Camus, Absurdity and Suicide
Bluebird - Charles Bukowski
thesteppenwolfe:
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart...
psychotherapy:
The Brain on Love (New York Times)
via NYTimes.com:
by Diane Ackerman
A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life...
So look at the trees, and look at my face, and look at a place far away from here.
Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012.
We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to the scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
I need the city. I need strangers and deafening music. I need foul smells and skyscrapers. I need the streetlights and wet pavement and smog. And then I need the wilderness — the stars and shrill cicadas. Please, please let me out.
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birdswitharms:
Anonymous asked: "You are beautiful, but you not are empty... I would die for you. "
Anonymous asked: eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat . . ."
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Anonymous asked: you know how everyone's always like "omg youre so pretty" but I know theyre flat out lying to my face. i know they only tell me these things because i have a nice personality, so maybe they believe im not ugly on the outside. i know some people think everyones perception is different, but this isnt even a self confidence thing, it really isnt. i believe some people are just ugly,...
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Anonymous asked: You don't have to defend what music you like by adding a disclaimer saying "i don't normally listen to...". It's what you like. Fuck the people.
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“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama
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