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#1

“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur

#2

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: black-lives-matter, racism

1675 likes

#3

“People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

tags: rape-culture, sexual-assult

1 likes

#4

“It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.”
― Amy Poehler

129 likes

#4

“Books are often far more than just books.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

172 likes

#6

“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, freedom-of-choice, girl-power, islam, women-s-rights

294 likes

#7

“You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: blonde-humor, kindlehighlight

281 likes

#8

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: humour, sleep, waking-up

885 likes

#9

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

tags: humor, inspirational, life

6900 likes

#10

“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: management, work

384 likes

#11

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

tags: diversity, horror, reading

1183 likes

#11

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

8367 likes

#12

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

2484 likes

#14

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31527 likes

#15

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: each, mind, politics, thinking

571 likes

#16

“Like my grandmother always said, “Your opinions are valid and important. Unless it’s some stupid bullshit you’re being shitty about, in which case you can just go fuck yourself.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

347 likes

#17

“Own the sadness, don’t let it own you.”
― Kwame Alexander, Rebound

8 likes

#18

“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what I do. Nothing will fill it, and it will never go away.”
― Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose

28 likes

#19

“The problem is not only with what’s right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what’s right and wrong.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

tags: decides, morality, philosophy, problem, right, wrong

51 likes

#20

“Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

34 likes

#21

“To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

194 likes

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