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2,671 quotes curated by Sade Andria Zabala:

“The worst sound in the world is a man giving their opinion on a woman’s appearance.”
— chessys
Tagged: Tumblr Jokes, Things Boys Do
“I inherited hunger,
popped jaw, all teeth,
& father taught me
how to feast.”
— Kemi Alabi, No More White Girls, or What I Learned from Father
Tagged: Poetry, Child Abuse, Fierce, Bad Girls, Anger, WOC, Fight Back
“What’s really misleading about neoliberal analysis of globalized capitalism is the idea everything works out because conditions for many are gradually improving. For any criticism you have of exploitation and imperialism, they have a chart showing gradual improvement in some communities.

Without more knowledge about the situation, you’d be inclined to agree. What’s wrong with capitalism if, over time, X amount of people left poverty?

That’s the argument for globalized capitalism.

The problem is, such a response is misleading. There is no taking into account how many people around the world remain in poverty (over a billion), how many deaths can be prevented.

Another problem is that it implies such conditions (extreme poverty, exploitation) are necessary in modern society. They are, of course, not.

Nike isn’t forced to use sweatshops instead of fairly paying workers and keeping them in safe conditions, they are driven to do it by the profit motive. The fact that such enormous wealth exists and neglects to ‘trickle down’ to people working constantly is an obvious problem.

So in the end the argument for globalized capitalism is misleading–not because the facts presented are incorrect, but because these desperate living conditions, in the modern world, are not necessary in the first place. Why would the corporation pay so little and allow disasters to happen in the workplace? Profit.

Instead of further questioning the system, we stop at a single graph.”
— comcastkills
Tagged: Capitalism, Money, Greed, Globalization, Imperialism, Poverty, Fashion Industry
“You were heartbreakingly tender.”
— Hélène Cixous, The Selected Plays
Tagged: Literary Sext, Crush, In love, Soft, Soft Heart
“She has been taught that she is the sun, the center of all orbits. She only has to stand still, and the satellites will come and worship her. She knows she is better because that is what she is always told.”
— Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher: A Novel
Tagged: Arrogant, Special, Special Girl, Beautiful
“i’m at a job interview
counting the ‘likes’ i’ve said in my head
& i don’t realize that i’ve peeled my left thumbnail further than its destiny intended don’t realize that it is bleeding.”
— Melissa Lozada-Oliva, PELUDA by Melissa Lozada-Oliva- Button Poetry
Tagged: Slam Poetry, Anxiety, Social Anxiety
“May Anthony Rapp's voice be the one which is amplified here. Victim's voices are the ones that deserve to be heard.”
— Zachary Quinto
Tagged: Sexual Assault, Victim, Twitter Quotes
“Yeah he's cute but does he care about your mental health?”
— arabwife
Tagged: Boyfriend Material, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Relationship Advcie, Tumblr Quotes
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
— Robert J.C. Young, Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
Tagged: Western Culture, Colonialism, War, POC, History
“Just a tender moment of emptiness.”
— Roberto Bolaño, The Paris Review No. 201 Summer 2012
Tagged: Empty, Numb