writingstuff

[nunhauntology]

RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF MEANS THAT YOU DON’T FALL FOR SHALLOW AND EASY SOLUTIONS

ADRIENNE RICH

[moonlitfairytale]

Natalie Wee, Least of all

[pastperfectcontinuous]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[xinakwans]

when i write women being bitchy and unlikable and working in their own self-interest it's good. trust me

[themonstrousother-moved]

The Contemporary Gothic, Catherine Spooner

[samlickereightyone]

when the media has homophobia that has aged into genuine queer subtext

[petaltexturedskies]

Even the most repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[phoebbi]

2 girls chilling in a hot tub five feet apart cause they are gay and dont fcking know how to approach intimacy

[marbleheadofawoman]

“Almost every womon I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”

— Elana Dykewomon, “Notes for a Magazine,” Sinister Wisdom #36 (Winter 1988/89). (via llleighsmith)

[13lilies]

“when the sun shines down, i open my mouth and try to swallow it. a girl with an unhinged jaw. a girl with bloody hands. a girl scraping out the contents of her own chest.”

— Angelea Lowes, excerpt from hopeless fountain kingdom dictionary (via wildfairy)

[bluegrasslove-moved]

when kristin chang said godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed or when laurie penny said it’s no surprise that so many women and girls have control issues around their bodies or when fiona apple said there’s no hope for women or when elana dykewomon said almost every woman i have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness or when carolyn gage said you can terrorize her with her own body and then she will torture herself or when angela carter said i often felt like a female impersonator or when leslie feinberg said i don’t feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body i just feel trapped

[mothersofmyheart-deactivated202]

“However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.”

— Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review  (via podencos)

[llanval]

“People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.”

— Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No 1 (via elesheva)

[pastperfectcontinuous]

You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests. I never thought to myself growing up, be a lawyer. An astronaut. The President. A scientist. A doctor. An architect. I didn’t even think, be a writer. Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It’s difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run. If I could go back, I’d coach myself. I’d be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I’d be the woman who says, “your mind, your imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us.

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

[beingsinthedream]

sheila heti

[fish-to-male]

it really is an underrated aspect of lesbianism the way that loving other women makes it easier to love yourself. 

[fish-to-male]

i know others have experienced this, but the more comfortable i get with being a lesbian the more i find that i don’t really feel as insecure about my “flaws” anymore. it’s hard to hate myself for having body fat, cellulite, stretch marks, short nails, an inability to apply makeup, body hair, eyebags, and so on when i literally find these things sexy on other women. 

[wovi]

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joy sullivan