© everlark

"One of my little boys just kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, please don’t die with me.’ I never thought I was going to die. The whole time I just kept screaming to them, ‘Quit worrying, we’re fine, we’re fine.’ And I’m very loud, so I just hoped they could hear me because I could hear them screaming. [One girl] was sobbing, and I was like, ‘We’re going to be fine, we’re going to be fine, I’m protecting you.’ And then I said a few prayers. ‘God please take care of my kids.’"

RHONDA CROSSWHITE, sixth grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was leveled by a tornado.  She threw herself over students inside a bathroom stall as the storm passed, likely helping to save their lives.

Teachers.  Among the best of us.

(via the New York Post)

Amen

(via msleahhbic)

(Source: inothernews)


  tornado    oklahoma    natural disaster    teacher    teachers    educators    queue  

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

(via spinals)

(Source: tealeafprincess)


  wow    dating    online    women    men    sexism    feminism  

joeygraceffa:

Can this Sarah girl be my friend?!

(Source: raeosunshine)


  lol  

"The secret isn’t to find someone you love spending time with - I love spending time with a lot of people. The secret isn’t to find someone that you find attractive - I find a lot of people attractive for many different reasons. The secret isn’t to find someone who is nice - there are tons of nice people in the world. The secret is to find someone who wants exactly what you want. Someone who is ready to give you all they’ve got, and in turn be ready to accept all the love you have to give. The world is filled with people in relationship of “loves you more” & “I have to act mean so they will like me back” or “I am just not ready.” Please do not waste any more of your precious time. You are an amazing creature. You deserve to be loved until your insides melt. Don’t give up on all the things you want. When you meet the right person you will have zero doubt in your mind. Zero."

(via xokrista)

(Source: thelovewhisperer)


  love    people    quote    queue  

my gf and I are going to sleep at the same time so we can channel our thoughts and pretend we’re together. 

Yes, we’re lame.

But cute. 


  me    gf    girlfriend    cute  

wantering-jewelry started following you 

Hey, thank you for following me! 


  follower    wantering-jewelry    hi!  

hollylderr:

Representation Visualization: Time to Wash Those Men Right out of our Hair


  media    representation    PoC    men    women    minorities  

multipack:

do u ever go to school confident in what ur wearing and then u actually get there and ur kind of just like wow well this was an awful idea


"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people that we trust with that important talk can help us know that we’re not alone."

Mr. Fred Rogers (via cheershaveagreatnight)

"

I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, stomp my feet on the floor and scream “No! No, you cannot make me, I won’t, leave me alone!” I am, simply put, too tired. So very, very tired.

I am tired of fighting with my friends. I am tired of arguing that someone groping and slapping my butt isn’t “what I have to expect”, just because I’m at a bar, and the one attacking my butt has a drink in the other hand. I am tired of hearing “boys will be boys” and “when you’re dressed like that …” and “that’s just what guys do”. I am tired of trying to drown those sentiments in loud, repetitive no’s, screamed over and over again, till my throat is sore and my voice weak – just to hear them repeated, as soon as exhaustion threatens to silence me.

I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate clicking “submit”. I am tired of knowing that I hesitate because I am afraid of the flood of responses that will come. I am tired of knowing that I will be bombarded with lighten up’s, stop whining’s and get a sense of humor’s for so long, that I will start to wonder if I am indeed wound up too tight, a nagger and humorless.

"

I don’t want to be a feminist anymore  (via malcolmross)

I also like the last lines:
“No, I don’t want to be a feminist anymore – today.
Tomorrow? Tomorrow I think I’ll try again.”


  feminism    women    men    tired    me    feelings