“I went back to the origin, the starting point, the innermost despair in me,” - BO CARPELAN, tr. by David McDuff, from “Urwind,” published c. 1993 (via violentwavesofemotion )
“ This is why girls are so much more employable than young men in all the shitty, less-than-subsistence-level service jobs they’re trying to cram young people into across Europe and America....
sober-2 : > The shining is barely even a horror movie men just be like that
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“The hymen is a profound example of the way humans metaphorize anatomy. Here is an organ that has no biological function, and yet Western culture made up a powerful story about the hymen a long...
“A black cloud of grief came shrouding over Achilles. Both hands clawing the ground for soot and filth, he poured it over his head, fouled his handsome face and black ashes settled onto his fre...
“despite how many times you’ve killed the animal inside you only to meet it again in the morning / breathing out of your own mouth” - NATASHA OLADOKUN, from “The Poem Climbs the Scaffo...
platovevo : > woman culture really is feeling like you’re you and also the you > watching you
opinionatedasfuck : > the only way to break sexist stereotypes is to say “Im a woman and > i dont adhere to this” not to say “Im not a woman because i dont >�...
desmondsprettyface : > Today, my 84 year old neighbour said to me, “I quite like > mushrooms. They have a good outlook on life.” She then admitted > she felt a bi...
honeygoblin : > COTTAGECORE IS JAM, HONEY, INSECTS, FRUIT, WOODEN SPOONS, MILKMAIDS, > STONE AND WOOD, CERAMICS, MOSS AND MUD, GOATS AND LAMBS, PICNIC > BASKETS AND BREAD...
coffee-and-quotes : >> “All the “not readies,” all the “I need time,” are >> understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that >> there is ne...
memoryslandscape : >> “Out of the window I saw the trees coming into leaf. Pecan and >> chinaberry and black walnut. I thought that those leaf-buds were >> almos...
laudanumat33 : > “The witch-burnings did not take place during the ‘Dark Ages,’ > as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and > eighteenth cent...
mymomsamidwife : > ”When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge > that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of > surgeons�...
horrorvenus : > ladysaviours : > >> the thing about “well-behaved women rarely make history" is that >> the author, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, didn’t write it abou...
“When I started screaming, I finally figured it out. I had always been afraid…of not being able to see my future, of not knowing what I want to do with my life, of not knowing why I don’t k...
lifeinpoetry : >> Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most >> disarming thing to say and not What’s the problem? Studies >> suggest it’s�...
“The summer made her languid, the summer undressed her. Wearing fewer clothes, she was becoming more and more aware of her own body. The breeze seemed to touch her skin like a hand. At night sh...
slavwitch : > OFFERING SNACKS TO MY FRIENDS: Wouldst thou like to live deliciously