“Some Steps Need To Be Taken Alone. It’s The Only Way To Really Figure Out Where You Need To Go And

Reblog if you ARE a woman in STEM, SUPPORT women in STEM, or ARE STILL BITTER about Rosalind Franklin not getting credit for discovering the structure of DNA and the Nobel prize going to Watson and Crick instead.

The last thing you googled is what will be engraved on your tombstone.

Mine is “abortion jokes”

– Schuyler Peck, "The Greatest Act of Self-Love Isn't Always Pretty" (Instagram Account: "hiitssky")

[TEXT ID: I TOOK CARE OF MYSELF and it wasn't beautiful.

I took care of myself / and looked at the overdue bills / in the face, even though it hurt. / I took care of myself / and cried ugly through the therapy session; / made another appointment for next week.

I put in the work and wrote / all the bad memories in detail; / apologized to all the friends / I didn't have the energy to talk to. / I finally cut off all my dead ends / and bought produce-slimly avoided / sustaining myself on barbecue chips and poetry. / I recycled. / I set an alarm for 8 hours of sleep / and did not sleep more or less.

I took care of myself / and it wasn't bubble baths, / It wasn't lotion at Bath and Bodyworks / and three cheese pizza. It was uncomfortable. / It wasn't beautiful, / but I am, / and it didn't have to be beautiful / to be worth it. END ID]

mary oliver, upstream

Get it done out of the way :) 

“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

I thought of a poem, but I cannot pen its words down. They are too heavy to be carried out my mind. Too artistic and beautiful to ever escape the confines of my brain.