You don’t owe prettiness

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space … Read more

Take your life in

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong

Advice is what we

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. Erica Jong

I do think in

I do think in general, women have a value system. And it’s that value system that I think is feminism. Not \”men are bad, women are good, let’s get women empowered\” – it’s let’s get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it. Elizabeth … Read more

Just don\\’t give up

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Ella Fitzgerald

Just don\\’t give up

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Stop wearing your wishbone

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Elizabeth Gilbert

For what is done

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. Elizabeth Blackwell

Begin to live each

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross