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    We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.

    (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)

    Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com

    - He raises a really great point. What would it mean to believe very early that my body was mine. That it’s not for anyone or for any particular purpose other than to be mine until I decide otherwise.

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    I was damned near 30 before I could believe my body belonged to me & me alone. Dear people who take an issue with this,

    Let the Smiths do right by their babies & shut the fuck up about how you think they should parent.

    (via karnythia)

    Oh man, this means a lot to me for one because my hair means a lot to me. It’s long and blonde and pretty much my defining factor. When I was in elementary school I would dye it fun colors all the time with koolaid (cheap! exciting! washed out after a fortnight!). I went through lots of packets, teal and purple and pink and red.

    The first time I dyed my hair my principle called me into his office to ask what I thought I was doing, what did I do to my hair. I was in fifth grade. I was eleven. What was his problem? He called my mom and asked if he knew that my hair was a color besides my normal blonde. Like, how freaking ridiculous is that? My mom just snorted and replied, “Uhh, of course I know. I helped her dye it.” He made comments about me being different when my mom would pick me up after school, comments about my hair being blue and what kind of person allows their child to do that and jeez louise that kind of thinking drives me crazy.

    My body. My choice.

    That is exactly what my mom taught me and what I still believe today.

    So, long story short, screw people who think that anything besides the social norm is wrong. :)

    banana you da coolest

    As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.
    Ricky Gervais: “Why I’m an Atheist” (via fewgitivemotel)

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    Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
    Amy Poehler (via lucifelle)

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    Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority.

    10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked  (via astheplanetsbend)

    YES EXACTLY. Try doing the right thing because it is the right thing and not because you’re afraid of going to hell or because you want to go to heaven. Do the right thing even if it won’t affect you in any way.

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    Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I am not really myself when I make that effort. I feel fairly comfortable with my family, but even with them I sometimes feel the strain of not being alone.
    Peter Cameron (via joannastarks)

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    We’d said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone. We should have said we’d keep in words, because they are all we can string between us—words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
    David Levithan (via floristries)
    You swim some more, and there’s a feeling in your arms and legs as though the muscles have been peeled out of them, as though the bones have softened from being in the water too long, and you can’t find the energy to pull yourself forward at all.
    “We Wave and Call,” Jon McGregor

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    This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important.

    Gary Provost (via qmsd)

    This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.

    (via bdoing)

    You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
     Harlan Ellison (via amandaonwriting)
    He could make words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
    Roald Dahl  (via bodyfluids)

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    I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. “How fared it with the wind,” I said, “When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. What thought went flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?”

    But Five made answer solemnly, “I heard them fire a gun, No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done.”


    R.C. Lehman (via thatcrewgirl)
    I know very subjectively what it’s like to be 21 years old and sitting in a room full of adults who are all taking about how cute your passion for your vision is and how angry that makes you. A certain kind of young person is going to respond by saying, ‘Let’s knock the walls of this thing down, set fire to the conventional wisdom and take the future for a test drive.’
    David Fincher (via whatevercommonpeoplesee)

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