miss anthony

While it's tempting to apply modern labels to historical figures, it's anachronistic to think of them as straight. Most never publicly stated their explicit heterosexuality, and we can only extrapolate based on letter excerpts.

Yep, and in fact the word "heterosexual" only dates to 1892 - and didn't even mean "straight" in the modern sense yet.

you can't waste your life btw it's just not something that's possible to do. your mere existence is already a precious and valuable use of your time. the time you spent becoming who you are now was inherently worthwhile

your twenties are Also about discovering that you’re not a bad person in all the ways you believed you were but you’re a bad person in completely new and exciting ways

When carrie bradshaw said your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing

When dostoevsky said maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with

to all y’all graduating, finishing a semester, thinking about starting school, leaving school, looking for a job, working, resting, improving, or trying every day to do whatever you can to be the person you want to be… I’m so proud of you, and I hope you are proud of yourself. it hasn’t been easy, but here you are, and you’re doing so good. I love you, keep it up, I know you can do this

writing historical fiction is like: yes i can write a beautiful scene with longing glances but FIRST i must know how people brushed their teeth in 1814