Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway (via theonlymagicleftisart)
idk I just love how we Young People Today use ~improper~ punctuation/grammar in actually really defined ways to express tone without having to explicitly state tone like that’s just really fucking cool, like
no = “No,” she said.
no. = "No,” she said sharply.
No = “No,” she stated firmly.
No. = “No,” she snapped.
NO = “No!” she shouted.
noooooo = “No,” she moaned.
no~ = “No,” she said with a drawn-out sing-song.
~no~ = “No,” she drawled sarcastically.
NOOOOO = “No!” she screamed dramatically.
no?! = “No,” she said incredulously.
10 minutes on my hair, 5 to 10 on the rest of me. 5 minutes of fixing a plot hole in my story. 5 minutes falling out of the shower while grabbing a towel so I can write it all down, before I forget it, and not throw my whole family into therapy because I streaked through the house…
What the fuck are people doing when they’re in the shower for 30 minutes
Carrie Mae Weems “Not Manet’s Type” 1997
things girls are made to feel ashamed of-
having periods
choosing what they want to wear on their body
wanting to/not wanting to have sex
putting boys in the ‘friendzone’
standing up against misogyny
ruining a boy’s life by telling the police that he raped her
abortion
having hair on their body
not appreciating catcalls
not appreciating chivalry
having control over their own fucking body
basically living
I found this while looking for quotes for a painting I wanted to do for a friends daughter. It is too long for the painting but I just had to share it
i sleep nude because if someone ever breaks into my house they gotta fight me while im naked and i dare you to try and swing on a nigga when his dick is out
Even in death you cannot respect a woman enough to use her name. How disgusting.
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