November 2010
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“When we talk about women as cultural producers — whether it’s music or art or...”
– bell hooks (via kperfetto)
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Nautilus by Joy Harjo
This is how I cut myself open — with a half pint of whiskey, then there’s enough dream to fall through to pure bone and shell where ocean has carved out warm sea animals, and has driven the night dark and in me like a labyrinth of knives.
(via serpentskirt)
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“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom,...”
– Colette
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“The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via thebaffled)
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Interviewer: It was nice of [husband] Stieglitz to let you go to New Mexico every summer.
Georgia O'Keefe: Well listen, he didn't let me go, I just went.
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“Poor me. There’s nothing so sweet as wallowing in it, is there? Wallowing...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“…the single most reliable predictor of whether someone will be sentenced to...”
– Death Penalty and Race (via azspot)
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by Cate Marvin
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Not a sea of longing, but the brack of wanting what’s physical to help us forget we are physical.
(via mkarmstr)
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“You have to have a certain detachment in order to see beauty for yourself rather...”
– Marilynne Robinson, interviewed in The Paris Review (via crashinglybeautiful)
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She’s a Lady, Pulp (via thedarkspark)
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“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself....”
– Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
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ISS — INSTITUTE INDEX: Senate rejects women's pay... →
Amount U.S. women earn for every dollar earned by men: 77 cents
Amount African-American women earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 61 cents
Amount Latinas earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 52 cents
Amount women living in Southern states* earn for every dollar earned by a man: 75
Percent of U.S. voters who in a recent poll expressed support for a new law to give...
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“‘Geez, can’t you take a joke?’ That’s all it takes—the implication...”
– Shakesville (via lams)
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Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob Dylan (via...
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“Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.”
– Edith Piaf’s last words
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The Voice by Sara Teasdale
Atoms as old as stars, Mutation on mutation, Millions and millions of cells Dividing yet still the same, From air and changing earth, From ancient Eastern rivers, From turquoise tropic seas, Unto myself I came.
My spirit like my flesh Sprang from a thousand sources, From cave-man, hunter and shepherd, From Karnak, Cyprus, Rome; The living thoughts in me Spring from dead men and women, Forgotten...
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“It is not given to us to right every wrong, to make perfect all the...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
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