— Brian A. Ortiz

Passionate women are like fires: often misunderstood and unfairly written off as wild, troubled, broken. And a fire left unchecked can be destructive; for example, a wildfire traveling through a forest. They’re unrestrained passion bordering rage.
Yet if that same fire is burning in a fireplace, people are able to appreciate its natural beauty and warmth, especially when they can feel how cold the outside world is. All because the fireplace has the depth (and through that, the capacity) to channel the fire’s unbridled energy.
Passionate women are the same way. They need someone who loves with a depth that matches their passion; someone they can burn for, and in the sense of having that love reciprocated, to burn within.

fire

Some women are lost in the fire 

others are built from it.

Sexy Superheros

Normally when you see “Sexy Superheros” you’d expect to see scantily clad women who’s costumes barely suggest the hero they’re dressing as. Here’s one for the ladies ;)


I want 20

     i see somebody decided to cosplay the hawkeye initiative

          I APPROVE

I never needed you.

I never needed you,
To tell me I was pretty,
Or that my eyes sparkled in a particular light,
I never needed you,
To tell me my laugh,
Was like music to your ears,
Or my nose was your favourite feature because it was cute,
I never needed you,
To pick me up,
When I was down,
Or to fall behind me,
I never needed you,
To remind me of how strong I am,
When things get tough,
Or to rescue me,
I wasn’t lost,
I never needed your wings to help me fly,
And I never understood why,
Until I let you loose,
I never needed you,
Because I had me.

Women + Type of dances

I feel like this photo set sums up the entire series. The men talk about doing shit; the women get shit done.

— Michelle K., Hurricanes.

“There is this odd trend

of taken women

saying they are too much,

and how the men they love

are amazing for dealing with them.

Love should not be a responsibility.

You should not have to deal with me.

Just because a woman is wild

and free

does not mean she is difficult.

He is not a martyr for loving me

through the good

and not so good.

Some mornings I will wake up swinging,

you do not get a gold star

for still loving me.

Some mornings I will wake up like a lamb,

you do not get a gold star

for loving me.

I am not a hurricane of a girl,

you always have the chance to leave.”

“This leaves men confused and unable to pigeonhole you. What they are forced to do instead is… take you seriously.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: 
I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. 
I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. 
I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. 
What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. 
On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. 
One kind of behavior didn’t fit the other. I didn’t care.”

i love Emma Watson :D

— Hillary Clinton on how to handle criticism & other advice for young women, The Cut

“Too many young women I think are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. They are too often selling themselves short. They too often take criticism personally instead of seriously. You should take criticism seriously because you might learn something, but you can’t let it crush you. You have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward, whatever the personal setbacks and even insults that come your way might be. That takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. Believe me, this is hard-won advice I’m putting forth. It’s not like you wake up and understand this. It’s a process.”

"Women shouldn’t be valued because we are strong, or kick-ass, but because we are people."

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

― Santosh Kalwar

All the problem of women, starts with men. 

All the problem of men, ends with women.

I’m gonna show you what a girl typically working out would look like versus what you want me to look like

― Walt Whitman

“Be not ashamed women, … You are the gates

 of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.”

Ladies!