“ Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real.“Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from your dreams. ”
I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can’t see. And that’s not ignorance. That’s just hope.
~ Caroline George
When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.
To cherish my purity and set boundaries are, in my opinion, the highest forms of feminism—a woman who saves her body proves she is strong and secure enough to resist the men who seek to claim her, that she’s more than what lies between her legs.
I twist and pin my hair at the nape of my neck, and then stand with legs wide. It’s what Nash told me to do before speaking because men, no matter how many times they profess women are equal, prefer to take direction from bodies like theirs.