May 2013
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frendlyneighborhoodwerewolfghost:
tre-cool-swallows:
to all of the father’s who play the mother role, you deserve a “happy mother’s day” as well keep doin what you do
Uhm yea there is a such thing as father’s day
What exactly does “play the mother’s role” even fucking mean?
Because a parent that takes care of their kids in a nurturing way who is also male? We have a...
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Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills...
– Don DeLillo
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If you are going to hurt a woman in the United States, be sure to take a...
– Andrea Dworkin, from “Letter from a War Zone”
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This is my Proof, David Yezzie
Inside a book I’ve been meaning to read forever, I come across you
decades later and find again words you wrote to calm me when
we were together: your photo pressed like an aspen leaf I guess I missed.
The scribble across the back, your name— if more was meant, it never came.
There were others (there’s someone now), same as you. And yet, somehow
among dust motes, none of it...
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i get so uncomfortable when people ask me what im doing on the computer like can u not
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Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is...
– Prince
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When men feel inconsequential, it’s easier to blame women than it is to confront...
– Allan G. Johnson
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"Uncomplicated Happiness" by Alex Dimitrov
Maybe I don’t want uncomplicated happiness. In the morning one of us turns to dress away from the other although little has changed. In a better world memory would always lead back to affection. Who is that person on the edge of the bed, looking back? Nothing is uncomplicated, traveler. Maybe I wanted you to stay for the wrong reasons. Maybe it’s the wrong reasons I love. I too am somewhere over...
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How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?
– Warsan Shire
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April 2013
That God does not exist, I cannot deny. That my whole being cries out for God I...
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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What I would argue is that femininity is a vulnerable state that we are...
– Dr. Gail Dines
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For art to be unpolitical means only for it to ally itself with the ruling...
– Bertold Brecht
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Ars Poetica (cocoons), Dana Levin
Six monarch butterfly cocoons clinging to the back of your throat—
you could feel their gold wings trembling.
You were alarmed. You felt infested. In the downstairs bathroom of the family home, gagging to spit them out— and a voice saying Don’t, don’t—
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If you live in England and your girlfriend is in Sicily, and it is clear you...
– Werner Herzog, Solvitur Ambulando: It Is Solved By Walking
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swdyw:
as a male feminist! I! I have to be included! You cant exclude me! I have thing to say! A thing to say over you, you’re a woman
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
– Jane Austen
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I knew when I said
I love you
that I was inventing a new alphabet
for a city...
– Nizar Qabbani
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In the midst of an abstract discussion it is vexing to hear a man say: ‘You...
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex