“What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?… It’s because a woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks. That’s why. It’s because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.”—
Liane Moriarty
(Quelle: purplebuddhaquotes)
“Respect and fear are two different things.”— Jane Smiley
(Quelle: tumblr.com, via themsleeves)
“The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn’t want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”— Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, “Good Omens”
(Quelle: noirandchocolate)
“You are so beautifully you in all of your imperfect perfection that any woman would be jealous of you..”
And they have every reason to be - Eue
“Yes, I’m strong, but I am so damn tired too.”— (via smoking-black-world)
(via dreamvoices)