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@brookeintheriver / brookeintheriver.tumblr.com

Twenty One. Nursing Major. I love butterflies, trees, drawing, painting, coffee, reading, and the beach. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It’s hard because words confuse me sometimes. There isn’t a word for a member of an ethnic minority who is pro equal rights for all races, but there is a word for gender equality—and that’s feminism. It’s a very female-centric word. I understand that the implication is that ‘I’m a woman who supports women’ and not ‘I’m a person who supports gender equality.’ I feel like the word can be appropriated by the wrong people for that reason and misinterpreted by those people, but you just have to fight back and own that word. It’s practically become a curse word. Somebody says, ‘Oh, you’re being such a feminist,’ and you’re supposed to be like, ‘No I’m not.’ Why are we afraid of that word? It exists and we can’t get rid of it, so let’s fight for it and embrace it.”

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Hearing people say “i can see you doing that” after telling them what you want to do in life is honestly the best thing ever 

one of the most encouraging things you could hear

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