My body, your sexuality?

13 maart 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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Women and sexuality; it has been a popular subject for ages, probably even since the cavemen days. But it is not just a topic for philosophers and elevated conversation at the dinner table. Throughout history, men in power have often tried to control, suppress and even claim women’s sexuality. These men want to take sexuality away from women to be its safe keeper, claiming it is for their own good. Ironically, the men who want to be women’s safe keepers often turn out to be the ones women need safekeeping from in the first place.

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Five ways Sex and the City still makes me swoon

7 maart 20167 maart 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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Friendship goals #1

When Carrie was cheating on Aidan, her swoon-worthy, extremely tall and beautiful furniture-making boyfriend, with Big, her married ex-boyfriend, Samantha was the first person she confided in.

After telling her dirty secret, Carrie asks Samantha: “Don’t you want to judge me, just a little?” Samantha replies as only Samantha can: with a sweet wink and an even sweeter “Not my style”.

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7 maart 20167 maart 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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when in doubt, feign an STD

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3 maart 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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let there be room for what comes naturally and joyfully

To come or not to come

28 februari 201628 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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Ah, the female orgasm. Source of inspiration for artists, source of perspiration for others. A goal to be reached, a mystery to be solved.

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21 februari 201622 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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procrastination actually makes you super productive; it moves you to do ALL the other shit you have been dreading #anythingbutthis

All hail escapism!

20 februari 201622 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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One of the definitions of “escape” provided by the world wide web includes the following: to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil; gain or regain liberty.

All good, no? Basically the thing you should do when you find yourself in a bad situation. Then how come escapism has such a bad rep and basically comes down to “running away from reality“?

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19 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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the best way to know you’re on the right track, is by talking to the people you meet along the way.

Insecurity

16 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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I used to be afraid to no longer be insecure, afraid it would be replaced by arrogance and insensitivity. I know now this is not true. I know now that it is insecurity that can make you arrogant and insensitive. I know that insecurity can make you inaccessible, can stop every good thing that people feel about you from coming in. It can make you stop seeing yourself. The door is always wide open, however, for the bad things. Insecurity blocks out the good but invites the bad in as if it were a long lost friend.

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watch us come true

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14 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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my friend and i both worry about money.

she worries because she has it;

i worry because i don’t.

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11 februari 201611 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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it is in my complete and utter doubt

that i know for sure who i am

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i ache

of future and past

heartbreak

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9 februari 20169 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ 1 reactie

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if it feels like shit

it’s okay to run away from it

Ew, feelings!

8 februari 20168 februari 2016 ~ Ruth Van de steene ~ Plaats een reactie

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Nowadays, to be one of the cool kids you have to be dead inside. Feelings, especially the big ones, are sooo not done. And showing them is social suicide.

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