As a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, I know they have fallen in love with my mind. Having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. Art may be the only space a woman can be whole without being seen.
Tag: quotes
Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.
taking time for yourself is important (via cwote)
There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don’t you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don’t you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There’s something you need to know about failure… You can never let it defeat you.
The Adventures of Tin Tin (via toinfinityandswann)
Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H.L. Mencken (via recovery-equals-happiness)
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
Barbara Kingsolver (via padshiy)
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin (via gaywrites)
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much easier to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
– They are Us | Terry Pratchett, Jingo
“In a story like Lord of the Rings, whether the Ring and Sauron are evil
is incidental to me. Even if we were not to get the Ring anywhere near
Mount Doom. Even if we all died. It doesn’t really matter. It’s the fact
that everybody got together and decided to go on this trip. That’s the
thing. That’s the miracle.”
– Viggo Mortensen
Modern Aragorn.
Caring for myself is not self indulgent. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde (via recoverykitty)
‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.
‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’
J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
There's a Mirror on the Wall 