onomatopriya:

when virginia woolf wrote, ‘the history of men’s opposition to emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself’, and when margaret atwood said, ‘men are afraid women will laugh at them. women are afraid men will kill them’, and when sally rooney wrote, ‘generally, I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves’.

quotemadness:

“Don’t say maybe if you want to say no.”

— Paulo Coelho

glazedeye-s:

𝙴𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚢𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚜 // 𝙼𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜.

philosophybits:

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

— George Eliot, Adam Bede

1000bestbooks:

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

— The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925