Women get more radical as we get older, it’s the opposite of men. […] Men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, and women get more radical because they lose power as they age.
Gloria Steinem
Real Time with Bill Maher
February 5, 2016
It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
i dont want to look “pretty” i want to look otherworldly and vaguely threatening
There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child – you grow up knowing you aren’t allowed to disappoint, you’re not even allowed to die. There isn’t a replacement toddling around; you’re it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.
Gramática de la lengua castellana is a book written by Antonio de Nebrija, published in 1492. It was the first grammar of a modern European language to be published. When it was presented to Isabella of Castile, the queen questioned what the merit of such a work might be; Fray Hernando de Talavera, bishop of Avila, answered for the author in prophetic words:
After Your Highness has subjected barbarous peoples and nations of varied tongues, with conquest will come the need for them to accept the laws that the conqueror imposes on the conquered, and among them will be our language.
Flawless, Beyoncé
Those who come here think they own us, but they don’t; here, we have mastered the art of keeping the body separate from the soul, she says.
Beyoncé is arguably the only current artist who creates enormously popular music where so much of what she presents is completely outside the experiences and knowledge of a mainstream audience. (I’m talking about her singing about twerking back in 2005, patting her weave and of course, “Bootylicious.”) Her art is rooted in black womanhood—celebrating and stomping, both figuratively and literally, on the systems and individuals that attempt to suppress it.
Kara Brown, We don’t need to defend Beyoncé’s feminism anymore because we have ‘Beyoncé’
Noisey Music by Vice
secretive dreams 