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Follow the White Rabbit

The next time a dream or a TV show or a picture on the internet makes you cry or feel hungry or turns you on, tell yourself again how real you are.

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Memories are not the scars left behind by pain, but the experiencing of pain anew.

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For most women, emotional openness, sexual openness, and spiritual openness are all part of the same single gesture of trust, relaxation, and love. In fact, for many women, their deepest sexual experiences are their deepest spiritual experiences.

David Deida (via enigmatic-being)

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Repeat after me: I am the woman of my own dreams. I require no validation. My wish is my command. My life is my own. I build it. My voice is my own. I use it. I am relentless in my dedication to trusting myself. I am insatiable in my thirst for the extraordinary, and I do not settle for the mediocre. I Live Without Dead Time.

Robin Lee (via venuschild)

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Rachilde’s works have had a huge influence on me and my perception of self and self-as-relates-to-others.  Gender roles, power dynamics, sexuality, the nature of reality and fantasy...  She flips everything on its head.  In the end, she was a werewolf who was afraid of of mirrors.  

I never have celebrity crushes, but I have a serious crush on Rachilde.

Portrait of Rachilde, 1899.

Rachilde curated the salons of the fin de siècle, and penned some of the most enduringly provocative Decadent fiction, working within the form to subvert, pervert and blur fixed gender identity and sexual norms. 

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Edvard Munch, Woman in Three Stages, 1895.