Author: tobiowoyemi
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For the Wistful Lover
-Inspired from too many Tumblr posts. Disclaimer: A little on the mushy side but I like to expand my Horizons on what I write about, you never know who’s spirit could be slightly brushed by a few combinations of your 26 letters. I think first and foremost every woman wants to feel appreciated. We want…
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Sundayspiration
-Someone told me this post seemed redundant and common sense and at first I was taken aback, but then I thought, so what? Im not trying to make some amazing new point that no one has ever heard of. I simply want to enlighten and encourage any soul that I can in my way–which is…
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Marianne Williamson
“Usually, when we think of power, we think of external power. And we think of powerful people as those who have made it in the world. A powerful woman isn’t necessarily someone who has money, but we think of her as someone with a boldness or a spark that makes her manifest in a dramatic…
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With Time by Kaysy J Gotay
Guess the simplest way to put it is time.. With time I’ve realized none of this is real . You grow up learn a bunch of bullshit & have to reteach yourself truth . With time you begin to drift away, in your own little bubble … People aren’t as interesting anymore, mindsets differ and…
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Too much schooling ruins a woman?
I came across this excerpt while reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s Half of A Yellow son and thought it would be interesting to play devils advocate by mentally speculating on the idea that too much schooling ruins a woman.
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“’Question everything’ they said, ‘Why’, you asked’”
Today we live in a technological society where social media is generally ubiquitous and controls a great deal of our beliefs. Not only are we bits and pieces of the people we interact with or the books we read but we are also fragments of ideas or viewpoints that we have come across on social…
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I may even be ugly, but dear God, I am here
How are we today, Sister? -I am ugly, but I am here. “There is a Haitian saying which might upset the aesthetic images of most women. Nou led, Nou la, it says. We are ugly, but we are here. Like the modesty that is somewhat common in Haitian culture, this saying makes a deeper claim for poor Haitian women than…