every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you - to fathers with daughters
“The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all.”
― Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays
― Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays
“Gonzalez adds, “Researchers point out that people tend to take any information as confirmation of their mental models. We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is. And under the influence of a plan, it’s easy to see what we want to see.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“You may not be everyone’s cup of tea, some people need cream or sugar just to take you. Others enjoy you pure in taste.”
― Uncaged Wallflower
― Uncaged Wallflower
“I rest when I need to.”
― I Am That Girl: How to Speak Your Truth, Discover Your Purpose, and #bethatgirl
― I Am That Girl: How to Speak Your Truth, Discover Your Purpose, and #bethatgirl
“My emotions are fleeting, they do not define me.”
― I Am That Girl: How to Speak Your Truth, Discover Your Purpose, and #bethatgirl
― I Am That Girl: How to Speak Your Truth, Discover Your Purpose, and #bethatgirl
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