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"My response to the “I am not a feminist” internet phenomenon…. First of all, it’s clear you don’t know what feminism is. But I’m not going to explain it to you. You can google it. To quote an old friend, “I’m not the feminist babysitter.” But here is what I think you should know. You’re insulting every woman who was forcibly restrained in a jail cell with a feeding tube down her throat for your right to vote, less than 100 years ago. You’re degrading every woman who has accessed a rape crisis center, which wouldn’t exist without the feminist movement. You’re undermining every woman who fought to make marital rape a crime (it was legal until 1993). You’re spitting on the legacy of every woman who fought for women to be allowed to own property (1848). For the abolition of slavery and the rise of the labor union. For the right to divorce. For women to be allowed to have access to birth control (Comstock laws). For middle and upper class women to be allowed to work outside the home (poor women have always worked outside the home). To make domestic violence a crime in the US (It is very much legal in many parts of the world). To make workplace sexual harassment a crime. In short, you know not what you speak of. You reap the rewards of these women’s sacrifices every day of your life. When you grin with your cutsey sign about how you’re not a feminist, you ignorantly spit on the sacred struggle of the past 200 years. You bite the hand that has fed you freedom, safety, and a voice. In short, kiss my ass, you ignorant little jerks.”

Libby Anne  (via

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Yall know the “i’m not a feminist” “”phenomena”” has existed since feminism has been a thing right

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Bleib Die Fahrten geh´n zu Ende, der Fahrtenwind bleibt aus. Es fällt dir in die Hände, ein leichtes Kartenhaus. Die Karten sind bebildert und zeigen jeden Ort. Du hast die Welt geschildert und mischst sie mit dem Wort. Profundum der Partien, die dann im Gange sind. Bleib, um das Blatt zu ziehen, mit dem man sie gewinnt!

Ingeborg Bachmann

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The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters, meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

Anais Nin

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/24/anais-nin-global-village/

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Francis Bacon. 

I painted to be loved. 

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Roosevelt's secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, put it this way in 1933: "If the wages of mill workers in the South should be raised to the point where workers could buy shoes, that would be a social revolution." 

-- Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

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7 Days of Colour, Day 7 – Violet

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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.

The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis

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“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.” - Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese-American activist (May 19, 1921 - June 1, 2014)

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Look at these curves on the runway - Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 1992; Balenciaga Summer 1994 

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To set about living a true life is to go to a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

Henry David Thoreau, Letters to H. G. O. Blake

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Dr. Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman

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The world lost Maya Angelou today. In memoriam: 1928–2014 Photograph by Taylor Jewell

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(via Doll Capitol: 1925 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

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Nixon conducted negotiations in a sleep deprived state because he had stayed up most of the night to follow a Washington Redskins football game in local time.

Currency Wars, James Rickards

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#TheList: Coming Up Roses

Photo Credit: Camilla Akrans

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Afghan Hound, art performance by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, 2011