I am just a girl.

Maybe God is an older sister, an eldest daughter. Maybe God has found herself to be her father's daughter, righteous with misplaced anger. Perhaps God sees us as a younger brother -- naive and young, but happier than she ever was, and undoubtedly something to take care of. Do you think God hides from us the same way older sisters do -- finding it better & safer for us if she loves us from afar, for when she's around she can't help but lash out

a story, li-young lee

I’m so dumb

"There is a sexual energy between the girls which is kind of authentic, because I know when I was a teenaged girl, the friendships that I had with other girls were almost romantic, they were so intense. I wanted to sleep at my friend’s house every night, I wanted to wear her clothes, we would talk on the phone until our ears ached. I wanted to capture that heightened feeling you get as an adolescent that you don’t really feel as a grownup."

Diablo Cody on writing Jennifer and Anita "Needy"'s kiss in Jennifer's Body

thanks @yourlipisbleeding for the incredible response to my text message it was very girlcore

Memories from being seventeen

It girl (a mindset) ~ “Someone who strives to be the best version of themselves. If everyone’s busy chasing boys, she’s too busy chasing her dreams.”

There was something about yesterday of me going to the my childhood park with my younger siblings, and all their friends. And I just sat there with these four girls who are years younger than me, and they just kept asking me questions about what it is like to be a girl. They asked me about periods. They asked me about fighting with your mom asked me about diary writing. They asked me all these things that they were so shy about in the beginning and by the end I felt like I made them so comfortable, and it was honestly such a ethereal experience just realizing I am sort of the older sister that I never had

girl iz my species

agony/madness r my pronounz

from the shelf no. 008: the unabridged journals of sylvia plath

Yes Girlhood is Godhood because it's begging to be believed, but also because I wanna hold a knife to your throat with the eternal option of burning and being tortured OR to worship me,,, ofc, out of your own free will💜

My friend just turned to me and said do you think Mary had postpartum depression

I said would you if you had Jesus as a child and she said yes without a doubt

I feel like some poetry could be made with that

i’ve worked a lot on healing. i struggled deeply with depression for a long while and i’m now happy and stable and no longer feel that way, 98% of the time at least. i never understood how to heal my inner child, i thought it was silly, my inner child healed with me? i was still a child at that time after all. i didn’t understand that healing my inner child isn’t just from abuse or stereotypical pain. it can be from deep rooted ideas and patriarchy too.

i’ve begun to love pink and sparkles over muted darks. i’ve began to wear dresses that fly in the wind and big, pretty sleeves. i’ve began to wear clothes that i like, not just that i look good in. i’ve began to smile wider, my crooked teeth are nothing to be ashamed of. my exclamations of joy and wide smiles are not meant to be consumed by people who find me attractive, they’re for me and the ones i want to show. i’ve stopped giggling quietly or not at all, in favor of laughing loudly and naturally. i am allowed to take up space, to make noise, to be looked at. i’ve stopped dodging people in hallways unnecessarily, i’ve stopped moving out of the way men when i arrived first. i’ve stopped crossing my arms and legs tightly so i take up as little space as possible. i will be large and take up space if i do wish. i no longer let men walk over me, if i disagree i will speak up. i am a person and i deserve just as much as any man does. i deserve to listen to artists that embrace femininity without being mocked. i deserve to embrace femininity without being mocked. i deserve to be myself and embrace what i want. i want to wear pink and fight for others rights. i want to kind and still stand up for myself. i want to be unapologetically girly and strong and brave.

girlhood

"We were girls together."