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You Don’t Have to Be Pretty

1 June 2013 • Kimberly • Leave a Comment

"You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for ... Read More

Be Who You Are, And All Else Will Follow

26 May 2013 • Kimberly • Leave a Comment

"I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live." —Bettie ... Read More

Can’t Be Tamed

24 May 2013 • Kimberly • Leave a Comment

Try to catch the wind and you'll only feel it slipping through your fingers; do the same to a restless soul and she'll only throw her head back and laugh, laugh with the wind, the sun, the stars, before leaving you wondering where she might've gone the next morning. A word of advice: you might have ... Read More

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