You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your significant other, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.

I’m gonna tell this to my daughters.   (via blackstarastronomy)