don't apologize for all the tears you've cried

You don’t have to be pretty. 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 occupying a space marked “female”.

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Erin (from A Dress A Day)

I wish someone would have told me this when I was younger.  

(via iamateenagefeminist)

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