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For these YouTube ladies and the many things they have all accomplished

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Stevie Nicks surrounds herself with girls. Wherever she goes, she brings girls. ‘I can’t imagine you in a bathing suit,’ someone says in an interview for Rolling Stone, when Stevie says she likes to play in the pool in her backyard. ‘Yeah, well, you never will,’ Stevie says. ‘And there is never — ever — a man in the backyard. If there is, he is banished to the front of the house.’ Men don’t get to look at Stevie Nicks unless Stevie Nicks wants men to look at Stevie Nicks.

Stevie Nicks is a queen, a witch, a dragon; she’s in control. Stevie Nicks is there for us.

File under “#goals.”

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Badass female athletes squash their body issues in ESPN’s body issue

ESPN magazine’s annual Body Issue hit newsstands Monday, showcasing some of the world’s most celebrated athletes in all their chiseled, well-toned glory. Yet it’s also become an opportunity to interrogate American standards of beauty. For instance, this year’s issue features Brittney Griner, who has faced a wealth of controversy over her gender.

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everyone: are you in school? Have you graduated? What are you doing with your degree? Where do you work? What do you plan on doing, long term? What’s your ideal career? How are you saving money? Are you still living at home? When are you moving out? Are you still single? Are you meeting anyone? What–

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More inspiring quotes here

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Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There’s been so many who didn’t understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

Rod McKuen, “Two,” Listen To The warm (via wordsnquotes)

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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

The Little Prince (via heartsinrevolt)

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Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.

Mary J. Blige (via wordsnquotes)