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Tag: words
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
The Modern Woman lives every second of her public life
imagining what the surveillance footage will look like should she shortly be murdered.
You are a woman with a security camera inside watching a woman;
can you save her?
Do you want to?
Margaret Atwood by @graceebooks (via graceebooks)
I too am sick of the body.
I too am sick of being a body,
am sick of being sick about my body,— Meghan Dunn, from “Response, Years Later, to Two Male Poets I Overheard Discussing How Sick They Were of Women’s Poems about the Body,” published in MUSE/A
“A little coffee. A little sunlight. Your troubles will get smaller.”
— Richard Webber (via quotemadness)
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?”
— Audre Lorde from “Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action”
You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world—that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature—but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.
Franz Kafka
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