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There's something soft in me

we killed it and it's rotting.

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whenever a woman blames herself for being exhausted, my heart aches. you carry a whole world in your body, of course it's tired

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profoundly sad adult woman experience of seeing a photo you thought you looked ugly and fat in at 16 and now you just see a scared child

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girls will casually tell you the most traumatic backstory known to man and finish it off with "it's whatever though i don't really care"

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this body was passed down to me through so many generations of women, it is the body of my mother, my grandmother, and her mother. We have the same hips and the same hands and the same strong legs, this is my only home, I wish I could love it more than I do

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It's so fucked up that women are so universally dismissed and hated in society that nearly every single woman goes through a phase (if not a lifetime) of thinking she isn't like other women purely because she has rational thoughts, hobbies, feelings, and needs

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Women prefer compliments from. other women cuz after we give one, we don't expect anything in return and we don't act like we did anyone a favor. It's just THAT. A compliment. A good one at that

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A relationship should be 50/50 I choose the Jhumkas and you buy them .

#jhumkas

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Okay, hear me out. Slurping Chai while listening to Ghazals, wearing a saree, gajra in the hair, bold lipstick, a messy bun, bangles, a hot cup of tea, and reading poetry. Favourite aesthetics.

#bangles poetry

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"And when at last you find someone to whom feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."

-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love.

- Don DeLillo, White Noise

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You could burn my house down and i will just be glad you showed up at my door

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reminder that it’s okay to not use every last bit of energy you have in a day. you don’t have to push yourself to your absolute limit.

#stress

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Write that down. I AM VERY YOUNG AND I AM LEARNING HOW TO LIVE. Tape it to the wall by your bed and read it every morning.

You are very, very young. You are learning how to live.

—Heather Havrilesky

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Meeting someone that puts u in survival mode vs meeting someone who brings calmness to your soul makes such a huge difference, bc one person will bring out the worst side of you and the other the best, and most of the time unconsciously too.

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Okay! I know that there are terrible terrible ppl out there but listen, I also know that there are people who stop and smile at tiny plants growing out of sidewalk cracks, people who laugh so loud they snort, people who compliment others randomly, people who take pictures of their friends because they love seeing their friends happy, people who ramble about things that they're passionate about, people who blush and stutter, people who are kind, people who are warm, people who love and love and love...

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O Allah, do not burden me with overthinking when You are the one who manages all affairs

#islam