Marisa Donnelly
Marisa is a writer, poet, & editor. She is the author of Somewhere On A Highway, a poetry collection on self-discovery, growth, love, loss and the challenges of becoming.
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To The Men, Please Don’t Settle Either
If you find yourself wishing for someone else. If your days feel empty, like something’s missing, if you know that this woman isn’t who you’d want to marry one day, then let her go.
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Don’t Be Afraid To Be Vulnerable
People so often confuse vulnerability with weakness. They believe that being vulnerable is being naïve, is standing on a ledge, closing your eyes, and falling, blindly into people and relationships. But what they don’t understand, is that being vulnerable is the strongest thing you can be.
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I Want You When You’re Broken
I know I cannot fix you, cannot make you whole. But I can make you believe. And I want that.
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11 Reasons Why Working With Young Children Is The Most Rewarding Job In The World
You celebrate the little things every single day.
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Please, Be This Kind Of Woman
Be a woman who doesn’t expect everything to be handed to her, but goes out and creates her own world.
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This Is How You Know Your Broken Heart Has Finally Healed
You aren’t scared of letting someone in. Because you know that all men are not the same, and you don’t want to hide behind your fear anymore.
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Read This If You’re A Woman Who Likes To ‘Fix People’
This might not be the way of the world, to be a fixer, to appreciate a fixer. It’s unhealthy, really, to love people that aren’t good for you, to try to mend what can only be mended by that person. But you try because it’s inherent within you to care. And you don’t need to…
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14 Sure Signs You’re The Girl With Too Many Feelings
You are totally capable of crushing on two people at once. Because the feels…duh.
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I Won’t Apologize For My Heart
I will not apologize for this stupid heart, this heart that knows better, but doesn’t care. This heart that sees the good in people. This heart that believes.
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Sweet Girl, These Are The 13 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Saying Yes
Does he listen with his eyes?
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Today I’ve Decided That I Really Don’t Care What You Think Of Me
There are so many things you just can’t control in life. What others think of you is, unfortunately, one of those things.
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To The Woman Who Loved Me Like A Daughter
You are the woman who built me up, who kept me strong, who took my mother’s place when she couldn’t be there. Who has always loved me as if I was one of your own, and some days made me really believe I was.
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To My Fellow Women, Please Don’t Settle
Don’t settle for anything less than excitement and jumping beans in the pit of your stomach. Nothing less than forever. Nothing less than knowing, beyond on a doubt that this is love.
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Maybe We’re A Lot Less Complicated Than We Think
We think we have to be women and men who are tough on the outside and soft on the inside, who act one way but think another. We believe this makes us attractive, to be complicated. Makes us worth the chase, worth the discovery of what’s beneath the layers. But maybe we really don’t need…
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36 Definitions Of Love, According To Urban Dictionary
"Nature's way of tricking people into reproducing."
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When It’s Time To Leave The Place You’ve Called Home
As I watched the lights, I couldn’t help but cry. Cry for the sounds and the absence of them. Cry for the places I’d been and called home. Cry for the hands I’d held, the hearts I’d broken, and the people I would one day leave behind.
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10 Things You Need To Hear If Your Significant Other And Your Family Don’t Get Along
Despite the odds, love conquers all.
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You Are My Home
You are my security, my savior. You are what I’ve always had, always cared for. Yet despite that, I still wish for you, day after day.