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Many derby girls find they are playing a sport for the first time in their lives. They never got all that excited about going to the gym, had parents who made them choose academics over athletics back in school or simply “hated exercise.” These are the same girls who are now willingly spending hours upon hours a day, sometimes six days a week, training their bodies. Not because they want to fit into some killer bikini, but because they want to win.

Now, if that’s not girl power, I don’t know what is.

How Roller Derby Can Save Your Life (via curvesahead)
Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’?

JK Rowling (via thebutterflies-) (via weighty) (via seaponies) (via madide)

I forgot she said this! I’m not even a fan but PREACH, JK.

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We’ve reblogged the full quote here before, but this point is worth making again and again.

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This may have been useful at camp a few weeks ago…

This may have been useful at camp a few weeks ago…

Okay.  I’m inspired.  Tumblr is definitely more my speed than the wordpress blog I set up last month and only posted in once.  I’ll see if I can keep up for any length of time.

This is the background on my phone!

This is the background on my phone!

This weekend’s Sled and Breakfast event at camp went really, really well.  My hands are tie-dyed AGAIN, but I got through most of our laundry and we have leftovers!  Everyone seemed to have a really good time…