Gillian Anderson’s advice for young feminists

Above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you’ve got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you’re a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you’re at it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen
dancing
were thought to be insane
by those
who could not hear
the music.

Alice Walker

The most
common way
people give up
their power is
by thinking they
don't have any.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

We’re all human, aren’t we?
Every human life is worth the same,
and worth saving.

3/7/13

We cry over
Friends we will never have back
People we once loved
Bridges that have been burnt.
But there's a reason
The past is in the past.
You only have so much
Room in your life,
Save it for people who deserve it.
Chances are,
If someone's in the past,
They deserve to
Stay there.

- A. M.

"Either/ Or: A Fragment of Life" by Søren Kierkegaard

Do it or don't do it – you will regret both.

I'm not searching for my other half
because I'm not a half.

When it's over, leave.
Don't continue watering a dead flower.

Ragnar Lothbrok, Vikings

We are fated to die on a certain day
but it’s our own choice to do as we please
until that day comes.

"Tell Me" by Auriel Haack

Tell me when your hands start reaching for her throat instead of her clothes.
Tell me when ‘baby’ turns to ‘bitch’ on the tip of your tongue.
Tell me when goosebumps disappear with your touch, when you start making her skin crawl.
Tell me when you forget how to love her softly,
when you don’t remember how to say her name without spitting,
when you don’t know how to hold her without breaking her.
Tell me when you lose yourself to the monster,
so I can tell her what no one ever told me to do:
run.

"Miracles of Life" by J.G. Ballard

But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality

itself was a stage set that could be dismantled at any

moment, and that no matter how magnificent anthing

appeared, it could be swept aside into the debris of the past.

"Collected Poems" by W.H. Auden

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

"93 Percent Stardust" by Nikita Gill

We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins,
carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains.
93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames,
we are all just stars that have people names.

Marry someone who agrees that people sorted into Slytherin aren't evil.

(found on tumblr)

Daniel Radcliffe

I spent like 10 years of my life pretending to fly around on a broomstick and you’re asking me if preparing for a love scene was ‘tricky’ because the other person also had a penis?

Why stress over someone that
won't even text to see if you're
alright?

Mark Twain

Jeder Mensch ist ein Mond und hat eine dunkle Seite,
die er niemandem zeigt.

Daya Bhuteshu

No matter in what life we start,
soulmate,
in the end i’ll still hold the end
of the red twine
to your
heart;
leading yours to mine.

to not forget myself
when the morning comes,
and
to not lose myself
when the night comes

Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds

Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept
that doesn't exist in nature.
Its origins and connotations have been
inextricably linked to religion and mythology.

Drake

Anytime you're afraid to try some new shit...
just remember,
amateurs built the ark,
professionals built the Titanic.

Henry Rollins

I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things done.

"Lurk" by The Neighbourhood

I want to be honest
I want to be bad
I want to destroy you
I want to move fast
I want the attention
I want all the cash
I want all the ass
Is it too much to ask?

I want to be faithful
I want to be raw
I want to be ignorant
I want to know it all
I want to die someday
I want to live long
I want what I ask for
I get what I want

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6V5Rv6aSnM )

Choose me or lose me. I'm not a back-up plan and definitely not a second choice.

You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. Respecting and taking care of yourself are crucial in life.

Olivia Benson, Law & Order

Arousal does not mean consent.

I do not spew profanities. I enunciate them clearly, like a fucking lady.

vellichor

n.// the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.

- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrow

liberosis

n.// the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.

- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrow

"Diary" by Chuck Palahniuk

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Date someone who will tap 

your butt playfully and do

the dishes with you after 

dinner.

Date someone who knows 

the power of running their 

hands through your hair.

Date someone who wants 

you to succeed as much as 

they want their own success.

Date someone who knows

how you take your coffee 

and what cheers you up.

Date someone who you can 

be independent from but still 

look forward to reuniting 

with.

"The Truth About Growing Up A Woman" by Michelle K.

As women, we are taught to be tiny. To have small bodies, to never be imposing. The ideal of our gender are thin and childlike, hairless and dainty. We are defined by our bodies; defined by our control over them. We are taught to obsess over our physicality and to be repulsed by our desires and intelligences.
We are taught to walk scared late at night. We cradle our keys between our perfectly manicured fingers, walking gracefully like a baby antelope in a herd of lions. That our virginity defines our character. That I am a frigid bitch if I do not fuck him, and a dirty slut if I do.

"100 Love Sonnets" by Pablo Neruda

I love you as
certain dark things
are to be loved,
in secret, between
the shadow and
the soul.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Sirius Black, Harry Potter

I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You’re not a bad person. You’re a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.