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“If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, 'Hey, can I have that?'”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Getting What You Want, Carrers, Carrer
“It's a shame that in 2015 women's rights are still under attack in this manner, and that Planned Parenthood, which first and foremost provides healthcare for female-related issues to women who would otherwise not be able to afford it, is still being targeted in this deadly manner. It's even sadder that some of the very politicians we elect stoke this violence with their hateful rhetoric and harmful laws against a woman's right to choose.”
— Molly Oswaks, Here’s What the Suspect in the Planned Parenthood Mass Shooting Shouted in Court Today
Tagged: Robert Lewis Dear, Mass Shootings, Violence Against Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood, Right To Choose
“Why at this late date are we still reinforcing the idea that women are modest and fragile and in need of gender-specific accommodations?”
— Molly Oswaks, Porn for Ladies: The Subtle Sexism of Assessing Female-Friendly Smut
Tagged: Gender Norms
“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Opportunity, Extraordinary
“Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Growing Up, Stay Young, Youth, The Ending
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Empathy, See How Other People See, Privilege
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Confusion
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Recover Something, Lost In Time
“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Rules, Moral Compass, Desire, Self-Control, Discipline
“He's one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Bloom Too Early, Youth, Best Is Behind You