It's enough to make your heart sigh

[pastryheart]

My love's too big for you, my love.

Ingrid Michaelson, “Sort Of”

[thanosdawise]

The Perfect Explanation of Privilege – In One Powerful Punchline

“The Pencilsword” is a comic strip by Toby Morris, an illustrator from New Zealand. His most recent comic, “On a Plate” hits hard at the heart of the issues of concerning wealth and privilege.

How many times have you heard the “I’ve never been handed anything on a platter” argument in regard to social security and other social benefits?

Toby wrecks this argument by showing how two children can grow up, be loved and supported, and yet still have two very different outcomes.

Make sure to follow all the way to the end for the powerful punchline. This comic is an increasingly sad reality for far too many of this nation’s children and families.

[tblaberge]

You must not reduce yourself to a puddle just because the person you like is afraid to swim and you are a fierce sea to them; because there will be someone who was born with love of the waves within their blood, and they will look at you with fear and respect.

T.B. LaBerge // Things I’m Still Learning at 25 (via tblaberge)

I need to write this down and put it everywhere. Every mirror. Every drawer. In my car. Write it on my heart.

(via losing-every-extra-pound)

[pale-fire]

Feminist Graffiti from the 1970s [x]

[michele-847]

I haven’t seen this in a while. It never gets old.

[honeyandelixir]

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Maya Angelou (via lamegrownup)

[observando]

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein  (via wolfandwilow)

[pastryheart]

"I hope that you're the one. If not, you are the prototype."

"Prototype" - OutKast

[yagazieemezi-deactivated2022030]

If I see one more status or shared post with ‘advice’ on how a ‘real’ woman or man ought to act when single or married; I am going to show up on your doorstep. With some rope. And I am going to tie you to one of your dining room chairs. And I will spend several hours gently interrogating you on why you think you are qualified to repeatedly set standards on the lives of others.

Yagazie  (via yagazieemezi)

[hi]

to everyone with finals and exams and big projects due very very soon and haven’t started anything yet

[floorcharts]

Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) quotes the Guttmacher Institute while fighting against abortion.

[bebinn]

What happens to patients who are denied abortions?

"The take-home from that study is that most women are having an abortion because they say they can’t afford to have a child. And it turns out that they’re right: Two years later, women who had a baby they weren’t expecting to have, compared to the women who had the abortion they wanted, are three times more likely to be living in poverty. They knew they couldn’t afford a kid and it turns out they were correct." - Tracy Weitz, PhD, of the Turnaway Study

[afunnyfeminist]

Wait a second. Are you saying that women are actually aware of their circumstances and can make educated and accurate decisions about their own lives?

[cognitivedissonance]

Remember, Rep. Smith is using the study as proof forced birth is a good thing because 25% of people who sought abortions and were unable to secure Medicaid funding gave birth instead. 

To him, this is a success. A person too poor to pay for an abortion was saddled with an unwanted child, and this congressman looked at that and said, “Yep, let’s have more of this!” Let that sink in for a second.

[postleoism]

[moremomoa]

[substancesauce]

AOOOWWWW

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

[pre-gifs] “…So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t and it became the best selling sex tape for two years on the porn market.”

Dr. Gail Dines addressing porn culture and rape culture’s intersecting roles in patriarchy

[pastryheart]

If I was a smart woman, I'd let him be my boyfriend.

But I don't want to be anyone's girlfriend right now. And it took a really good guy to show me that. Not the millions of assholes.

I don't want to have someone else's feelings wrapped up in me. It's too much responsibility right now. 

And I'm sorry to him because he is the kind of man that women wait their lives for... but timing is everything, right? And now's not the right time for me.

[abluesforbrklyn]

Sometimes you need to burn bridges to stop yourself from crossing them again.

L. Gabriel (via analyticalmuslim)

[beyonce]

Happy Birthday Sis!

[beyonce]

Happy Birthday Sis!