you have to let yourself be a weird woman or you will not survive

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him

@shakespereansonnet

nastasya filippovna woman of all time. she’s insane. she’s a hussy. she’s doomed by the narrative. she’s a serial runaway bride. she’s cruel. she just wants to be loved. she would go to siberia to make sure her abuser receives justice. she can’t forgive the man she loves for loving her. she set 100,000 rubles on fire. she wrote another woman love letters. she compared herself to the pope. she’s the most beautiful woman in russia and everyone is terrified of her. she is the answer to the question “what if helen of troy was batshit insane and wanted to make men suffer?”.

Rereading Dostoevsky is always a safe bet because, yeah, the heavy soul-shattering themes will always be strikingly prevalent, only now it's ten times funnier

i’m a woman written by a man but that man is fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky.