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1 " to make him the oneand it took me three years to realizelove doesn’t work like that "
― Rupi Kaur , Home Body
2 " it’s impossiblefor one person tofill you upin all the waysyou need to be filledyour partnercan’t be your everything "
3 " i can live without romantic lovebut i can’t survive withoutthe women i call friendsthey know exactly what i needbefore i even know i need itthe way we hold spacefor each other is just different "
4 " why escape yourselfwhen you are so beautifulget closer to your shine "
5 " nothing lasts forever let that be the reason you stay even this sick twisted misery will not last - hope "
6 " look for the women in the roomwho have less space than youlistenhear themand act on what they’re saying- amplify indigenous. trans. black. brown. women of color voices "
7 " abuse doesn’t just happenin romantic relationshipsabuse can livein friendships too "
8 " i used to crybecause i could not finda good man to love menow i have one andhe isn’t enoughthe others were alwayshalfway out the door- that’s what made them alluring "
9 " i have difficulty separatingabusive relationshipsfrom healthy onesi can’t tell the differencebetween love and violence- it all looks the same "
10 " we can workat our own paceand still besuccessful "
11 " sometimesi love you meansi want to love yousometimesi love you meansi’ll stay a little while longersometimesi love you meansi’m not sure how to leavesometimesi love you meansi have nowhere else to go "
12 " no one on this planetis in more denialthan the white manwho regardless of allthe evidence in front of himstill thinks racism and sexismand all the world’s pain don’t exist "
13 " i am not my worst daysi am not what happened to me- reminder "
14 " i paid in blood to be here. i paid with a childhood littered with biggermonsters than you. i’ve been beaten into a silence more times than i’ve beenembraced on this earth. you haven’t seen what i’ve seen. my rock bottomwent so deep i’m pretty sure it was hell. i spent a decade climbing out of it.my hands blistered. my feet swelled. my mind said i can’t take it anymore. itold my mind you better get yourself together. we came here for joy. and weare going to feel all of it. i’ve been hunted. killed. and walked back to earth. isnapped the neck off every beast that thought it could. and you want to takemy seat. the one i built with the story of my life. honey. you won’t fit. ijuggle clowns like you. i pick my teeth with fools like you for fun. i haveplayed and slept and danced with bigger devils "
15 " get loudsay what you need to sayit feels good to reclaim your life "
16 " live loud and proud like you deserveand reject their bullshit definitionof what a woman should look like "
17 " why do i hurt the oneswho want to lift me up andworship the ones who crush me- what made me like this "
18 " i’m waking upfrom the longest night of my lifeit’s been years since i’ve seen the sun- awakening "
19 " nothing tastes better thanbeing on your own side "
20 " your beauty is undeniablebut everything sacred and ancient in youis even more stunning "
