Afina

“Misfortune is the best fortune.
Rejection by all is victory.”
― Vālmīki

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

“Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues