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They’re practicing behavioral therapy in the astrological updates newsletter I read

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i want to shake many young women and say you can grow in private. and what i mean by that is that you don’t have to publicly self-flagellate when you don’t know something or when you say something a little insensitive or whatever else. you don’t have to report your Bad Thoughts and Ignorance to the crowd who waits to judge you. you do not have to pay penance. you do not have to issue public statements. nothing more is gained from burying yourself in shame than you could gain by thinking “oh i don’t know about this” and looking it up real quick, or thinking “hm, that wasn’t how i want to behave, i’ll do different next time” and then moving on with your life. no need to choke yourself with it.

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-قصيدة "حكاية في الليل" في ديوان الجدار لفروغ فرخزاد

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Marie Howe, from What the Living Do; “Watching Television”

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Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

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It's crazy how you have to choose to be different and then once you do it's not even over - you have to choose it again and again forever and yes one day it will feel so natural you don't even notice it anymore but there is no short cut to there, just willpower and repetition

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But how do you say goodbye when your heart still wants to hold on?

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to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you.

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— rhythmicrhinoceros

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“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

— Elizabeth Berg

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Margaret Atwood, from The Door: Poems; “Europe on 5$ a day”

[Text ID: “I’ve cut myself off. / I can feel the place / where I used to be attached. / It’s raw, as when you grate / your finger. It’s a shredded mess / of images. It hurts.”]

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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)

George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Margaret Atwood

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Yves Olade, Bloodsport

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Richard Siken - Planet Of Love