Is a Challenge to be Soft

Soft is harder than the hardest hard.Sweetness is stronger always. These are difficult realizations for any human beings but what it is to be strong and female means to be brazenly feminine, not merely to imitate or be the counterpart to the masculine (Black Diamond Field; Sarah Sophie Flicker & Maximilla Lukacs).

Feminism

'I've never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.'

(Rebecca West)

Be What it Is

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. Now nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

(Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bee)

NOT NICE

I know girls and none of us that nice (Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl S.3)

A Lonely Writer Does

I’m a lonely writer/I live in a box of words/I took memories of you/And make it into my song...

Lyrics by Mian Tiara, Indonesian indie singer-songwriter.

The Fatality of Having Something (or too much)

There is fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellow. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent and without disquiet.

(taken from The Picture of Dorian Gray).

Spending Time Alone

Growing up, I repeatedly heard people addressing me as weird, an anti-social human being. I spent so much time alone reading books. Weird loser that is me in the eyes of so many people. It saddened because no matter how much you try convincing yourself that you don't care what people say about you, at some point you could not help not to care.

Curtis Sittenfield thank you very much...

"You confuse being weird and spending time alone. But anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone."

(taken from Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld).