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Either you do vulnerability, or it does you.” “It does you?” “Yeah. Like, you hold in all your feelings, and then you drink, or you do drugs, or whatever it is, instead of feeling stuff.”
“No more watching your subconscious drive your life around for you while you sit in the passenger seat as it unfolds. You’re going to take the wheel and drive it your damn self. Because silence and complacency in situations of injustice make you complicit in the violence. Speak up. Say something. Your words have the power to change the fucking world.”
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
“Knowing you have been unintentionally causing harm and benefitting from unfair systems is uncomfortable. But think about how uncomfortable it must be existing on the flip side of that privilege.”
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
“It does not make you morally superior to grow out your body hair, and you’re not any less of a feminist for shaving.”
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
“How long have you been drawing me?”
He sighted. A moment later his hand came to rest in her hair. His fingers twined in the strands. “My whole life.”
― Lady Midnight
He sighted. A moment later his hand came to rest in her hair. His fingers twined in the strands. “My whole life.”
― Lady Midnight
“I’ve come to learn how loaded the term “bitch” is when used as an insult. Once I realized how often I’d used this to describe women (who were actually just assertive, and reminded me of my own lack of boundaries and my inability to say “no”),”
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
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