Imagine if all sex work opponents/researchers felt this way.
"To author is to have the power to originate, to name. Women who seek to produce natural knowledge, like our sisters who learned to write and speak, also must decipher a text, the book of nature, authored legitimately by men."
— Donna Haraway (author of A Cyborg Manifesto), In the Beginning was the Word: The Genesis of Biological Theory
(Source: amazon.com, via radtransfem)
(Source: theghostofpoetryfuture)
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like."
— Lemony Snicket (via cuzwehappened)
"When a woman speaks, she exposes her nakedness, but when a man talks, he puts clothes on - or so she thought to herself in bed. He was dressing and she was undressing, but she couldn’t find the words so decided to say nothing and not take off her clothes."
— Elias Khoury, As Though She Were Sleeping (via arnaia)
"Sometimes a book isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it’s the only story you knew how to tell."
— Tahereh Mafi (via expositively)
"Writing only ever begins badly. And you have to sit and tolerate yourself long enough to grind out a shitty draft."
— David Rakoff, RIP. (via tellmebirdie)
"You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you’d say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell ‘em, “Enough!"
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(via mslorelei)
(via mslorelei)
"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
— Charles Bukowski
(Source: resignations, via seemsabitparanoid)
Some men don’t want their women to speak up, and then other men are attracted to that very thing. But as a woman, you don’t want to be just window dressing. I’ve probably been unattractive to some men because I do say what I feel and what I think. You can be political about it, but I don’t have a red flag. I don’t have a mechanism in my head that prevents me from saying what I think, or if something upsets me or if I feel like I’m being degraded. I come from a family of very outspoken women. I can’t imagine living in a time when you couldn’t express what you felt. That’s why Betty does what she does. She’s imploding to the point where she gets so frustrated that she does something wacky.
- January Jones
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."
— Jacob M. Braude
(Source: pink-bats)
"I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to move on when the one you love walks away from you. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. —Anaïs Nin
(Source: setadriftmemorybliss)
"Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown."
— Diary, A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
