#rap

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. ↗

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#female-liberation #feminism #rape #independence

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap. ↗

— John Green

#stupid #stupidity

Reality holds no reverence for romance, and no remorse for the weak. Those who enter hell need know why they are there. ↗

— Doug Barber

#harley-davidson #motorcycle #people #photography #photography

I don't trust words. I trust pictures. ↗

— Gilles Peress

#photography

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. ↗

— Elliot Erwitt

#photography #photography

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice. ↗