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"I'm here to paint selfies and fuck the patriarchy and I'm all out of paint."

"I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am…You are a shit." - Frieda Kahlo

             

This is one of my favorite quotes in itself. I will never be on the intellectual level of this random guy on twitter my friend from high school retweeted one time.

Violet Baudelaire is my favorite female character ever in a book fight me

"At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey." - Lemony Snicket

And a bonus from Lemony Snicket because he is my favorite male author... 

"One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."

Sassy Virginia Woolf says, "Suck it, men in general."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore."- Virginia Woolf 

How long do I have to gape before I'm a writer?

At the risk ofappearing foolish, a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing—a sunset or an old shoe—in absolute and simple amazement."- Raymond Carver

Charles Baxter has had it up to here with your "wisdom" nonsense.

"Too often, what passes for wisdom is someone's personal prejudice masquerading as truth." - Charles Baxter

Michelle Williams can hold up my ship any time... Wait, what?

 "I want to be like water. i want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship." - Michelle Williams

In case I ever dare try to write another story about a straight white dude.

"There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men. "Great" books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at all." - Kelsey McKinney