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Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice. ↗
The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- is disengenuous; it is impossible for women not to have jobs anymore, so it doesn't make sense to expect them to structure their lives around getting married. The real failure is our cultural incapacity to make room for women to live and thrive outside of traditional conceptions of femininity and relationships. After all, we can eat without marriage, but not without work. ↗
#independence #independent-women #marriage #work-ethic #dating
That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. ↗
There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗
#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons
Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone) ↗
#independent-women #men-and-women #other-people #single-women #solitude
Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that's why they broke down—just couldn't stand the pressure—they had nothing within them to hold up against all of this. ↗
#prison #self-reliance #stanford-prison-experiment #experience
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗
#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans
Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. ↗
#human-experience #identity #journey-in-life #journeying #race
