"Comedy affirms the logic of our existence, confirms us in the belief that all is for the best. It induces satisfaction by exciting desires that it alone can gratify: time and experience have proved the the most effective way of doing this is to create two people obviously meant for each other, and to bring them together after the pleasurable tension of confusions and delays… It proves to be one of the most soothing and salutary gratifications fiction has to offer, the vicarious pleasure of watching the triumph of true love, even when it is insipid and especially when it is not." — Germaine Greer (via crooners)

(via queerella)

"Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference—those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older—know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change" — Audre Lorde (via ellielamothe)

(Source: thepoliticalnotebook, via feministhistorian)

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." — Ralph Waldo Emerson (via par-avi0n)

(Source: misswallflower, via queerella)

"Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”." — angels-and-angles (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)

(via definatalie)