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I do not want smiley lifestyle vloggers with very white teeth and very sculpted faces to begin a video with ‘Hey, guys’ before telling me to try these sweet potato brownies ‘that can be made non-vegan if that’s what you like’. I don’t want that at all. What I want is an imperious dame to tell me to get my shit together. I want a clever, funny, no-fucks-left-to-give woman to give me a list of seemingly random rules to make my life better. More efficient, easier and, above all, more pleasurable. I want her to tell me that I’m a fool if I don’t follow these rules.
This is something I find so difficult to receive from men, but give me a wise older woman in statement earrings telling me what she’s learnt and I’ll follow her to the ends of the Earth.
Every decade of womanhood is marked by a new self-doubt.
Because if a man has a problem with being with a woman who is taller than him, it’s not that he thinks she’s too big, it’s because he thinks he’s too small.
some of the most important relationships of your teenage life will take place in your head.
intimacy means being seen and loved for all you are, while seeing and loving someone for all they are.
You have just entered adulthood and you’re probably beginning to realize that reality is disappointing. You are entirely correct!
‘It’s not the absence of fun, it’s the absence of fear.’ Keep this in mind when you are looking for someone to share your life with – someone who’ll bring fun without fear. Someone whose company you love. Someone who makes you feel alive and safe and understood. Those are the specifics you should be looking for. The rest doesn’t matter so much.
