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how “we’re all cooked” mfs look when they discover the indomitable human spirit and its unyielding will to persevere
steph :)substack.comI don’t mind starting over because it makes me feel like I’m getting closer to the truest expression of myself. In the same way, I don’t mind invisible effort because that’s how I know I exist apart from performance. It’s a blessing that every time I write, I grasp, as fresh and dewy as the first time I met you: the beauty, burden, bliss of startin... See more
Perhaps the sense of self you carry isn’t the heaviness of other people’s wishes or absorbed environmental desires, but the lightness of what interests or captivates you. Perhaps wherever you are you can still seek out those things. Perhaps we’re always starting over: burying our dreams and then digging them back up. Careening in and out of love. I... See more
If you want to do something great with your life—whatever that means to you—remember this: you get an unlimited number of tries. The only constraining factor is your lifespan.
The worst things you can do are:
care what other people think,
not take risks,
fail slowly,
give up.
dustin curtisx.com
I want to talk about women instead. I want to talk about myself, and my girlfriends.
Even so, I just can’t help but think that there’s more. There’s so much more to me, and my girlfriends, regardless of what any man tries to tell us1. So much more, that I’m bursting at my seams, and I want the whole world to see it. Call me stupid, but I just can’t live my life thinking and believing that I can’t ever de-center men from my life. Th... See more
Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.