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“When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior. I wanted to see him far more naked than he was with his clothes off.”

— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

#angela carter

repent

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”

— Maya Angelou (via suspend)

#maya angelou

touyahikaru

“As workers, most men in our culture (like working women) are controlled, dominated. Unlike working women, working men are fed daily a fantasy diet of male supremacy and power. In actuality, they have very little power, and they know it. Yet they do not rebel against the economic order or make revolution. They are socialized by ruling powers to accept their dehumanization and exploitation in the public world of work, and they are taught to expect that the private world, the world of home and intimate relationships, will restore to them their sense of power, which they equate with masculinity. They are taught that they will be able to rule in the home, to control and dominate, that this is the big payoff for their acceptance of an exploitative economic social order. By condoning and perpetuating male domination of women to prevent rebellion on the job, ruling male capitalists ensure that male violence will be expressed in the home and not in the work force.”

— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (via heavyweightheart)

#bell hooks

amargedom

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”

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amargedom

“I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.”

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amargedom

“Someone asks me, “What is love?” I say, “Do not look for an explanation. Dissolve into me, and you will know.””

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amargedom

““Be with someone who is proud of you, someone you can laugh with, someone who listens to you, understands you, who treats you well and makes you a priority.””

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coughloop

"if a girl at the club doesnt fart on me tonight im killing myself"

- Banjamin Franklin hours before putting that key in the sky to invent electricity

lifeinpoetry

“Once I kissed a girl and she told me / to call her a god so I did”

— Brynne Rebele-Henry, from “Self-portrait as split-open lips, a gun & a cornfield at night,” Autobiography of a Wound

#brynne rebele-Henry

saedii

I’ll be your devil baby

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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

— Jack Canfield

#jack canfield

thoughtkick

“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”

— Melissa Cox

#melissa cox

aspiritualwarrior

“Remember, that you are the source of what you seek. You are the freedom, you are the goodness, you are the wisdom, you are the worthiness, you are the love and the presence. All the self-limiting ideas are just that—ideas. And they all can be reevaluated and discarded in favor of the timeless presence of your being.”

— Adyashanti

#adyashanti