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#1

“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of "losing it". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has no bottom to it and I will just keep falling under and under and under.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

tags: anxiety, depression, mental-illness

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#2

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#3

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#4

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

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#5

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

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#6

“A silent communication transpired between the wives then, some sentiment expressed only through eye contact, and I recognized them as a couple with their own language. I understood then that Catherine and Katrina were equals at their core, unlike so many couples I had met before, who gave an air of constant dominance and submission. When the wives turned to face me, they did so in unison. I wanted to rupture the unity and to join it.”
― Marissa Higgins, A Good Happy Girl

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#7

“Katrina’s excitement sped with our attention. Think about it, she directed, and I confess, I did. We’re all working, right? Busy, trying to get whatever task it is done. And there’s personal pressure, and then there’s capitalism, of course, and money, and hours. And if we didn’t work that day, well, we might lose the job entirely, or get a bad review, and lose it down the road. Okay, we know that. But imagine if we— here she looked at Catherine, though I of course knew that I was not yet part of a we—, had both worked today, or even, late yesterday, and we decided well, we’re a bit tired, and after all you— here they both looked at me, as I was of course the separate you— had canceled once before, even though we’d both arranged our work around that meeting, so, imagine if we had said, maybe even sensibly, well, I need to work, and so, that’s that.”
― Marissa Higgins, A Good Happy Girl

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#8

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: bi, gay, lgbt

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#9

“Fact is, blatant heterosexuals
are all over the place.
Supermarkets, movies, on your job,
in church, in books, on television
every day and night, every place -
even in gay bars.
& they want gay men & women
to go hide in the closets -

So to you straight folks
i say - Sure, i'll go
if you go too
but i'm polite
so - after you.”
― Pat Parker, The Complete Works of Pat Parker

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#10

“I am not here to entertain straight people.”
― Sarah Schulman

tags: gay, glbt, lesbian, lgbt, queer, straight-people

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#11

“This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.”
― Tyler Oakley, Binge

tags: gay, homophobia, homophobic, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia

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#12

“human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.”
― Hayley Williams

tags: equality, human-rights, lgbt, lgbt-rights

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#13

“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
― bell hooks

tags: feminism, lgbt, queer, queerness

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#14

“Smile, sweetheart” is an ostensibly less offensive remark, but it is expressive of the same insidious demand that a woman’s face be emotionally legible.”
― Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

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#15

“Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

tags: chromosomes, intersex, lgbt, love

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#16

“Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: bisexual, lgbt, sexuality

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#17

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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#18

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: attention, eagerness

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#19

“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

tags: heartbreak, love, love-hurts

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#20

“I am profoundly grateful to say that I have never felt inherently worthless. Any self-esteem issues I’ve had were externally applied – people told me I was ugly, revolting, shameful, unacceptably large. The world around me simply insisted on it, no matter what my gut said. I used to describe it as ‘reverse body dysmorphia’: When I looked in the mirror, I could never understand what was supposedly so disgusting. I knew I was smart, funny, talented, social, kind – why wasn’t that enough? By all the metrics I cared about, I was a home run.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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#21

“Maybe she’s a natural beauty, an untouched beauty. The sales pitch for every powder, cream, procedure. But there’s always a consequence, some side effect that keeps away the promised miracle. Acne from pore-clogging foundation. Asymmetry from filler injected willy-nilly. Body dysmorphia from the asymmetry caused by the filler, which even when dissolved leaves your skin stretched out and floppy. It’s the same with pills: Vicodin cuts the pain, but then you can’t shit;”
― Allie Rowbottom, Aesthetica

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#22

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

tags: chances, ex-boyfriends, lovers, men, new-beginnings, separation

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#23

“Boys—I think you're old enough now that I can talk about—certain topics with you. You know, most men expect a woman's body to look a certain way and not all of them do look that way. So sometimes a woman has to do something that will change her appearance so that she'll be accepted by the people around her. People expect a woman's breasts to be a certain size and mine aren't that size. They're smaller. So I wear a padded brassiere—it makes it look like my breasts are the size that most women's are.”
― Chester Brown, I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative

tags: body-dysmorphia, body-insecurities, breasts, expectations-on-women, misogyny, small-breasts, woman, womanhood, womens-bodies

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#24

“I so desperately craved men's validation that I accepted it even when it came wrapped in disrespect.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

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#25

“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

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#26

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: brain, brains, hope, inner-thoughts, mental-health, mental-illness, thoughts

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#27

“To think too much is a disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double

tags: mental-health, mental-illness, overthinking

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#28

“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

tags: men, mental, mental-awareness, mental-disorders, mental-health, mental-illness, mental-strength, ptsd

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#29

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: activist, adulterers, altruism, being-human, bias, caring, cheaters, commuicator, communications, community-member, compassion, complainers, crime, earth, empathetic, environment, forgiving, helper, helping-out, homeless, human-trafficing, hypocrite, kindness, liars, marine-conservation, medical-missions, mental-disorder-bias, mental-health-stigma, morals, oceans, open, outdoors, pollution, respect-for-the-world, respect-life, respect-nature, service, service-project, simplistic, social-issues, theif, theology, uneducated, values, vulnerable

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