lesfemmefatale:

Happy 42nd birthday Gwen Stefani!
Thank you for almost two decades of constant inspiration.

You will never be able to please everybody, especially not yourself. So don’t listen to anyone, and don’t listen to yourself, because you will bring yourself down more than anyone. I know I do. Just be you. Be you, and hold on to it.

― Chris Colfer (x)

(Source: thegirlwiththeflowerinherhair)

You wanna be commander in chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the United States uniform, even when it’s not politically convenient.

― President Obama, addressing all the GOP candidates, who stayed quiet as the debate crowd booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq (via -hermione)

(Source: thesoapboxschtick)

ren-ne-rei:

now kiss

The day i successfully resist a bandwagon is not today. There’s so much lovely fanart around it’s all too precious I am powerless aghhh

(Source: rennerei)

Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.

―  Haruki Murakami (via fabula)

(Source: slekes)

hausofandrejpejic:

Andrej Pejic | Marilyn Off Duty LoveCat Magazine Issue #2 | Ph: Jakob Dekat & Prince Chenoa (anneofcarversville.com)

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself. I can’t make it more clear; it’s only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

― The Awakening, Kate Chopin (via scarsremindusstuffhappened)

(Source: i-amverybusy)

bohemea:

Deborah Ann Woll - LA Times Magazine by Mark Segal, September 2011

Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…

― Sylvia Plath, on rape culture, etc (via fourmarys)

(Source: raccoonwounds)