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In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration. ↗

— Tegla Loroupe

#marathon #running #women #inspirational

so easy to take leave from the scent from the hue simply to tuck a hand under one's head and fall asleep the wind will not awake one the bee will not caress one with its dark wings to give oneself to the earth so hugely as to become not anything and not anywhere ↗

— Halina Poswiatowska. Polish poet.

#poetry #polish #poswiatowska #inspirational

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#poetry #writing #inspirational

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#philosophical #wry #inspirational

Life is tough, get a helmet. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#working-hard #inspirational

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

#children #inspiration #publication #readers #writer

For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#motivational #power #inspirational

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them. ↗

— Betty Smith

#wisdom #love

Can you tell by where my eyes are looking what I’m thinking? Hint: I’m staring directly at your vagina.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hint #men #naughty #naughty-thoughts #obvious

Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE. ↗

— Emily Nagoski

#men #rape #safety #women #men