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Shahida Arabi

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Bestselling Author. Content Writer for Thought Catalog. Quotes about empowerment, healing, victory.
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800 quotes curated by Shahida Arabi:

“I love to be flirted with. I don't like being sexually harassed. These two things are not the same, and if you're arguing the point "now men can't flirt anymore," you don't understand what flirting is or you're just pretending not to in order to set up a straw man argument in favor of sexual harassment. Good flirting is fundamentally empathetic.”
— Kate Willett, I love to be flirted with. I don't like being sexually harassed. These two things are not the same.
Tagged: Flirting, Flirting vs. Sexual Harassment, Rape Culture, MeToo, #metoo, The Difference Between Flirting and Harassment, Empathy, Changing the Cultural Climate, Sexual Assault Awareness, The Reckoning, Sexual Harassment
“Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. I will find my way to you in the next life, and every life after that.”
— Mia Hollow
Tagged: Poetry, romance, Love, soulmates, Twin Flames, Lifetime After Lifetime, Romantic Love Quotes, poetic prose, Devotion
“Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder.”
— Charles Warnke, You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
Tagged: poetic prose, romance, Beautiful Writing, Girls With Standards, Girls With Imagination, Girls Who Don't Settle, Girls Who See Through Your Cheap Parlor Tricks
“A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. A vocabulary, god damnit, that makes my vacuous sophistry a cheap trick.”
— Charles Warnke, You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
Tagged: Beautiful Writing, poetic prose, Poetry in Paragraphs, Girls With Standards, Girls Who Know The Real Deal, Girls Who Won't Settle, romance, Girls Who See Through Your Cheap Parlor Tricks, Expansive Vocabulary, Literature And Love, Literature and Imagination, Literature and Life
“When you’re dealing with an empathy-deficient individual with a high sense of entitlement and a sadistic need to bring others down, conversations become crazymaking minefields meant to psychologically terrorize and divert you.”
— Shahida Arabi, 12 Things Narcissists Say And What They REALLY Mean
Tagged: Narcissism, Narcissists, Malignant Narcissism, malignant narcissists, Conversations With Toxic People, Conversations With Abusive People, Narcissistic Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Psychological Trauma, Psychological Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Quote of the Moment
“When newspaper headlines call rapist Brock Turner a “swim star”, when victims are blamed for what they wore, or when Nancy Pelosi calls her colleague accused of sexual harassment an “icon”, we are providing refuge to those that abuse others.”
— Jessica Valenti, Male sexuality isn't brutal by default. It's dangerous to suggest it is | Jessica Valenti
Tagged: Rape Culture, Dangerous Predators, Sexual Assault, Rapists, Praising Predators, Protecting Narcissists, Enabling Predators, Victim Blaming, Victim Shaming, Rape, MeToo, #metoo, Stop Protecting Rapists, Stop Protecting Abusers
“Obviously finding out something terrible about someone you love is difficult, but the best way to show your support for women – and this moment – is not to reflect on your own feelings or surprise, but on the victims.”
— Jessica Valenti, The week in patriarchy: more powerful men are falling | Jessica Valenti
Tagged: Victims Come First, Prioritizing Victims, Victims of Sexual Assault, Victims of Rape, MeToo, #metoo, Patriarchy, Misogyny, The Fall of Powerful Men, Men Abusing Their Power, The Reckoning, The Revolution Is Coming
“It wasn’t built to be a viral campaign or a hashtag that is here today and forgotten tomorrow. It was a catchphrase to be used from survivor to survivor to let folks know that they were not alone and that a movement for radical healing was happening and possible.”
— Tarana Burke, A Black Woman Created the “Me Too” Campaign Against Sexual Assault 10 Years Ago
Tagged: MeToo, #metoo, Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Women, Women of Color Activists, Sexual Assault, Rape, Sexual Assault Awareness, What's Excluded From The Narrative, Whitewashed Narratives, Quote of the Moment
“As with most good things, a Black woman named Tarana Burke was the original creator of the #MeToo awareness movement, but you would never know that from whom TIME chose to put on its cover instead.”
— Hari Ziyad, Tarana Burke was omitted from the TIME Magazine cover, so let’s celebrate the sh*t out of her today! | AFROPUNK
Tagged: exclusion, MeToo, #metoo, Tarana Burke, Marginalized Women, Sexual Assault, Time Magazine, Person of The Year, Celebrate Women of Color, Women Of Color, Women of Color Activists
“The Universe is 13.772 billion years old. Live your dream.”
— Astro Poets
Tagged: Astro Poets, Astro Poets for the Win, live your dream, Well That Escalated Quickly, Great Advice