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There’s always three versions of people: the version you know, the version they are, and the version you hear about from whoever, whenever. Some folks are really great at some things and the worst humans ever at others. Some people can’t even drink a glass of water without starting a forest fire. But others save your life just by blinking at you.

THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #92: Bud Smith (via therumpus)

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We live in a strange time, so the question at the heart of the matter is pretty simple. Do we respond to fear with exclusion and negative projection and violence? Or do we take that ancient great leap of faith and do our best to respond with love? And with faith in the idea that what seems other is actually not other at all, but just us on a different day.

George Saunders, in his Man Booker prize acceptance (2017)

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So thrilled to be featured in this awesome article about #bookstagram! 

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The perfect book for your happy hour! #WomensLibation by Merrily Grashin is available now! 😍🍷

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Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.

Nikita Gill (via thatkindofwoman)

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There’s more to life than books you know but not much more.

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i don’t mean to be political, but what if everyone had basic human rights

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News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, May 6, 1929

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i’m better than every man i’ve ever loved and/or idolized.

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I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again —

Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (via super-vitamin)

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Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.

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‘Sex’ doesn’t sell. Erosion of female self esteem does. The feeling of superiority over women does. Turning women into ‘things’ to be studied, scrutinized & judged and then calling it ‘sex’ does. Sex doesn’t sell. Objectification does

Sadiqa Thornton  (via weltenwellen)

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This is an amazing sequence

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women are so considerate like they’ll put all the stuff you could ever need in their bags just in case and then they carry all that weight around and they’ll give band aid’s and ibuprofen and setting powder to any stranger in need, meanwhile men just put their ugly wallets in their back pocket and that’s it

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women are so considerate like they’ll put all the stuff you could ever need in their bags just in case and then they carry all that weight around and they’ll give band aid’s and ibuprofen and setting powder to any stranger in need, meanwhile men just put their ugly wallets in their back pocket and that’s it