Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can’t help themselves not only drives home the point that woman’s sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men’s sexual behavior.
— Jessica Valenti “The Purity Myth” (via ginger818)
I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery, when we can be together all our lives.
— Zelda Fitzgerald to Scott Fitzgerald, 1919 (via larmoyante)
A 37-year-old mother of three, she very succinctly told me about her life: “These were my options: I could be apart from my children for 10 hours each day while working in a sweatshop sewing buttons on shirts, or I could spend the day with my kids and, at night, talk to an interesting Western man, lie down with him for 20 minutes in a familiar, safe place and make a lot of money. Which would you choose?
