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blvvdk3ep · 8 months

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I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

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laurenillustrated · 6 months

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The March Sisters 📚

Little Women illustration based on the book!

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evadneares · 10 months

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Caitlin Conlon, "The Surrender Theory"

#writing #writerscommunity #women writers #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #creative writing #literature #writer things #writers #quotes #books and libraries #poets on tumblr #the surrender theory #caitlin conlon

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oddwomen · 1 year

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Jet (February 15, 1979)

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burningvelvet · 12 days

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An excerpt from the end of a letter where Mary Shelley rejects the advances of her long-time friend Edward Trelawny, 26 July 1831:

"My name will never be Trelawny. I am not so young as I was when you first knew me, but I am as proud. I must have the entire affection, devotion, and, above all, the solicitous protection of any one who would win me. You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours.

I write in haste, but I will write soon again, more at length. You shall have your copies the moment I receive them. Believe me, with all gratitude and affection,

Yours,

M. W. Shelley."

#lmao #literature #english literature #mary shelley #edward trelawny #shelley #women #feminism #devotion #love #romance #girlboss #romanticism #history #female writers #writers #quotes #excerpts

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metamorphesque · 1 year

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you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.

For Women Who Are Difficult To Love, Warsan Shire

#warsan shire #poems #poetry #quotes #literature #girlhood #for women who are difficult to love

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muskaanayesha · 1 year

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Peace be upon the daughter who helped her parents grow up. Accepted their cold shoulder, excused their anger, pardoned their mistakes, taught them how to be human. Peace be upon the sister who paid the price of rebellion. Screaming to her fullest, shaking like a leaf but standing tall, never letting the dictatorship go without a fight, paving the path for her siblings to breathe easier. Peace be upon the first child of an immigrant father. Aching to find their own purpose in life, firm in their own beliefs, contradicting generations and generations of cultural values. Peace be upon the girl who shouldered her mother's trauma. Swindled it into her own, morphed herself into an image of the womb she once resided in, immersed herself into troubles that weren't even hers, covered up scars that she couldn't even recognize. Peace be upon the woman who forgot who she was. So determined to be the savior of everyone, to fix her family, to nurture and love everyone around her. So deeply lost that she forgot she's just as worthy of love. Peace be upon you.

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strykerlancer · 1 month

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— Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women.”

#Sylvia Plath #Three Women #words #literature #out of my collection #quotes #poetry #lit

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soracities · 19 days

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Ankita Saxena, on her translation of Fahmida Riaz's poem "A Woman Is Laughing", pub. Modern Poetry in Translation [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #literature #typography #id included #ankita saxena #fahmida riaz #pakistani lit #m #x #the book of women

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peacefulandcozy · 1 month

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die-rosastrasse · 9 months

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Women & Books in Classical Art

Charles Edward Perugini, Carl Holsøe, Alfred Stevens, Edward Hughes, Alberto Piza, Léon Bazile Perrault, Alfred Stevens, Gabriel Schachinger, George Lawrence Bulleid

#art #paintings #art detail #classical art #painting #women in art #fine arts #books #literature #light academia #19th century art #victorian art #Art #art academia #academia aesthetic #cottagecore #cottagecore art

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mimi-0007 · 9 months

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Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana (born September 11, 1942), better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, and actress.

#lola falana #black history #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #black girl magic #dancer #american singer #american actress #beautiful black women #beautiful #talented

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this-barbie-is-trying · 7 months

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Everybody is talking about this new Roman Empire thing, but the real question is: how many times do you think about that cloudy day in 1816 when Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori challenged eachother in creating the spookiest story ever and "The vampire" and "Frankenstein: the modern Prometheus" were born? Because for me, it happens on a daily basis.

#literature #romanticism #lord byron #mary shelley #percy bysshe shelley #polly dolly #nerd #literary #frankenstein #frankenstiensmonster #dark aesthetic #dark acamedia #women in literature #book nerd #books and poetry #classic book #classics

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misscrappy · 2 years

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That feminine urge this, masculine urge that ….

Yeah, okay , cool

But what about the Lunar urge to ritualistically disappear every couple of weeks ?

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es-al · 14 days

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Yes yes

#quotes #literature #fragments #words #lit #poetry #pinterest #bookish #writers on tumblr #little women #reverse icks #thoughts

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belle-keys · 2 years

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I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.

Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.

And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.

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