“Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.”
— Rumi, Quatrain 914, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi (translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks)
I need feminism because…
(1) Guys still think it’s 100% acceptable to grab my ASS in clubs and then shrug and smile as if it’s a compliment.
(2)...
“When you’re a girl, you never let on that you are proud, or that you know you’re better at history, or biology, or French, than the girl who sits...
at Jardin du Luxembourg
Like the old phoenix which, the more it got
Burnt up, (recycling its own stuff, no doubt,
For it did not burn down) the more it grew—
Although no...
