“She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again… But he will always leave her empty.”
— - Coco J. Ginger
“Woman does not emerge from a man’s rib’s, not ever, it’s he who emerges from her womb.”
— Nizar Qabbani. (via curvesincolor)
“I am destroying myself so other people can’t,“ she said, ” and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form I know.”
— (via wantingwonderlandd)
“I came to love myself in defiance, out of despair, because there was nothing else.”
— Jamaica Kincaid, from The Autobiography of My Mother