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I could feel them creeping up from behind like a cheap and ill-fitting pair of underwear.
“I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
“How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? How can we do that day after day?”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
“Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Please don’t forget: I am my body. When my body gets smaller, it is still me. When my body gets bigger, it is still me. There is not a thin woman inside me, awaiting excavation. I am one piece.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“*Some dudes like to say that men have the instinct to spread their seed, while women are supposed to protect their reproductive organs from everything but the best sperm for the strongest potential offspring. By that logic every woman in the world should be saving herself for Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson and never let any of you shitheads touch her. Seriously, you guys should stop using that argument.”
― Scrappy Little Nobody
― Scrappy Little Nobody
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