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“This is the story of a mother, a father, her alma mater, their three sons and a future daughter-in-law.
It is a testament to love, patience and devotion. It is the perfect story for Valentine’s Day…”
This is OUR story, our real life Fairy Tale -my realization, that if you just slow down and stop trying to find Mr. Right or make him. You may find out that he’s been there all the time.
Via flavorpillScarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
For the sheer audacity of Butler, and for how much we wish he’d sweep us off our feet as well.
“Scarlett O’Hara, you’re a fool!”
Before she could withdraw her mind from its far places, his arms were around her, as sure and hard as on the dark road to Tara, so long ago. She felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left her limp. And the quiet face of Ashley Wilkes was blurred and drowned to nothingness. He bent back her head across his arm and kissed her, softly at first, and then with a swift gradation of intensity that made her cling to him as the only solid thing in a dizzy swaying world. His insistent mouth was parting her shaking lips, sending wild tremors along her nerves, evoking from her sensations she had never known she was capable of feeling. And before a swimming giddiness spun her round and round, she knew that she was kissing him back.
“Stop–please, I’m faint!” she whispered, trying to turn her head weakly from him. He pressed her head back hard against his shoulder and she had a dizzy glimpse of his face. His eyes were wide and blazing queerly and the tremor in his arms frightened her.
“I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You’ve had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you’ve known have kissed you like this–have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley–”
“Please–”
“I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all–what do they know about women? What did they know about you? I know you.”
Today I lost a ring, part of a set I put together. I’ve had it for years, a gift from a guy. But as I walked around the store where it must have fallen off, o realized that I wasn’t upset by the lost ring but more so… at am odd peace. See today it hit me, you’ve got to let go off the things that chain you to your past… If you want to move on. I’m moving on.
Via Black CultureBlack feminists picked up freeing Angela Davis as an issue, but this would not have been addressed by the larger women’s movement http://chaka85.wordpress.com/2010/11/
Please be true.
