Humans who insist opportunity is not a pie have usually enjoyed the majority of slices.
“It annoys me when people say “Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!” Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be loved by people whose hearts have practised loving for a long time?’ says Susan Ichi Su Moon”
― Making Friends with the Menopause: A clear and comforting guide to support you as your body changes. Updated edition reflecting the new 'NICE' guidelines ... you through life’s biggest challenges.)
― Making Friends with the Menopause: A clear and comforting guide to support you as your body changes. Updated edition reflecting the new 'NICE' guidelines ... you through life’s biggest challenges.)
“Your ancestors did not survive
everything that nearly ended them
for you to shrink yourself
to make someone else
comfortable.
This sacrifice is your warcry, be loud,
be everything and make them proud.”
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everything that nearly ended them
for you to shrink yourself
to make someone else
comfortable.
This sacrifice is your warcry, be loud,
be everything and make them proud.”
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“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
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