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08:48"Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women’s refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says, ‘Oh, I’m not a feminist’, I ask, ‘Why? What’s your problem?’"

— Dale Spender, Man Made Language. (via dumbledoreisabamf)

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oxyhaemoglobin:

Nothing beats this kind of intimacy, when it’s about 3am and it feels like you’re the only two people in the world. There are no words or intentions, you’re just happy lying next to each other knowing that you never want to do this with anyone else. Just to consider that you’re each, essentially, a bag of bones and organs and muscles, and yet you’re both so much more than that because you’ve found each other and suddenly everything makes so much sense.

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08:41

thatcuriouskat:

You write on being alone like people take the air out of your lungs, like there’s not enough for all of us and you’re afraid to be too close, in case they take yours too. Like your bones are glass and your skin is made of peaches and rose petals—like if they brush too hard…

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verkur:

“When they were to be married, my grandmother was almost 15, but still 14. I asked if she was afraid. Yes, she said. Not of the man—of the marriage. They made that trip to the ROM because there had to be official consent. For a 14-year-old girl to sit in a car being pummeled with stones while acutely aware she was about to move towards a significant chapter of her life – that is a fear that I cannot even begin to understand. I remember being 14: my hair sticking to the sweaty nape of my neck as I ran after a bus or a friend, afraid of only loneliness. How can I begin to understand what she must have felt? She was running towards a very different thing as she sat in that car. She was afraid of loneliness of a far greater unknown.”

I was commissioned to write a piece about my grandparents for NLB. My grandmother is chinese & my grandfather is Malay (Javanese). They got married during a period of time when racial tensions were very high due to Malaya & Singapore’s difficult political relationship. Click here to read. <3

12:03

When I’m Gone / Corrosion in the Pink Room by Mira And Mirabilia Images

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11:59"Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love."

— Osho (via awakeningapril)

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