June 2, 2012 • 51 notes • mylazythoughts
mylazythoughts: She just lovin the crew

mylazythoughts:

She just lovin the crew

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May 26, 2012 • 3 notes • heatherannemoody

Heather Anne Moody: Learning. Or unlearning, rather.

heatherannemoody:

“The reward for simply being nice* in oppressive circumstances is to be mistreated all the more.”

*There is an even more malignant kind of “niceness” in which a woman uses her wiles to propitiate others. It puts a woman in the position of grinning and bowing, trying to make the other feel good…

May 26, 2012
I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believe I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself.
May 11, 2012

Who we are, and what we become are the result of what we choose and what we turn away from

“Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions—predigested books and ideas, marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short…and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be “different”.”

April 24, 2012 • 17 notes • iguanahellfish
Maybe my experiences of my fellows have been reduced to so base a level that the smallest kindness overwhelms me…Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me….I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other’s houseplants—these things amaze me.
We Need to Talk About Kevin—Lionel Shriver (via iguanahellfish)
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