with love, HER

When it comes to relationships (partnerships & friendships) we’re so demanding that we’re making them nearly impossible… when parties involved are overly demanding, when each expects the other to live in her/his world, to always be there to join in her/his chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops…

— Charlene in The Celestine Prophecy

christel-thoughts:

shumbodynamedharry:

I could listen to a whole Christmas Album of DMX yelling the carols at me.  C’MON!!!!  WHAT?!?!?!  This is pretty amazing.

I can’t… Just…wow

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents then by the culture around them, that they must earn the right to be loved — that “femaleness” is not good enough. This is a female’s first lesson in the school of patriarchal thinking and values. She must earn love. She is not entitled. She must be good enough to be loved. And good is always defined by someone else, someone on the outside.

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bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love  (via nepantlera-en-la-frontera)

True shit. We’re taught that if someone doesn’t love us, then we didn’t work hard enough or try hard enough, or we simply weren’t good enough. That kind of psychotic mindset impacts so many young women.

(via thegoddamazon)

Every teen movie ever.

(via ancientcontemporaries)

(Source: daniellemertina, via littledirtyprettythangs)

We are not trapped. We cannot jump outside the situation, and there is no point where you are free from all power relations. But you can always change it. So what I’ve said does not mean that we are always trapped, but that we are always free—well, anyway, that there is always the possibility of changing …[R]esistance comes first, and resistance remains superior to the forces of the process; power relations are obliged to change with the resistance. So I think that resistance is the main word, the key word, in this dynamic.

—Michel Foucault (‘Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity’ in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth)

(Source: foucaultscat)