When women speak truly they speak subversively - they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

That’s what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don’t know the power in you - I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you’re writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgment or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman’s tongue. Come out and tell us what time of night it is! Don’t let us sink back into silence. If we don’t tell our truth, who will? Who’ll speak for my children, and yours?

—Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), Bryn Mawr Commencement Address (1986)

camewiththeframe:

“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”

-Ursula Le Guin 1929-2018

Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? —Rumi (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

There are days that must happen to you. —Walt Whitman (via quotemadness)

lbardugo:

rest-mywearysoul:

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled—not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it.”

—Leigh Bardugo

This quote arose from my own experiences with depression and it’s been really beautiful to see it cropping up in the tags.

girlinthepark:

Harlow & Sage.