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To The Woman Hitting On My Boyfriend by Sierra DeMulder
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."
"You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot."
Hillary Clinton (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
20 quotes to live by: Doctor Who Edition - #4
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
Third Doctor, The Time Warrior
"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, “Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?” or “Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?” But you can’t say that at a cocktail party."
Paul Gilmartin, The Mental Illness Happy Hour (via beautyisanillusion)
"Looking back, I stopped writing in my notebook when I stopped wanting to know myself anymore. If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head."
Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why (via beautyisanillusion)
"Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened."
Vera Pavlova, adding to our ongoing archive of advice on writing.
Complement with Ezra Pound’s don’ts for budding poets and how to read a poem.