January 2012
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You’ve Got Everything Now, The Smiths
December 2011
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“Greater men than I have failed to agree with life.”
– Charles Bukowski
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Blame Aphrodite by Sappho
It’s no use
Mother dear, I can’t finish my weaving You may blame Aphrodite
soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy
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“When the topic of misogyny comes up, and men change the subject, it trivializes...”
– Greta Christina (via rev)
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Stand By Me, Ben E. King
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“In this love, you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”
– Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via depressionparty)
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“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they...”
– Terry Pratchett (via enlightenedbombshell)
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from “A Poem” by Kay McKenzie Cooke
Oh and let’s not forget the heartbreak, the heartbreak of newly-mown grass, of any and every awful beauty.
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“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is...”
– Myra Pollack Sadker (via aninsufferableknowitall)
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Solitary Man, Johnny Cash
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“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe (via leopoldgursky)
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You by Carol Ann Duffy
Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head. so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables like a charm, like a spell.
Falling in love is glamorous hell: the crouched, parched heart like a tiger, ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin. into my life, larger than life, you...
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“The problem is, real people buy sex, and real people sell sex. The numbers on...”
– Melissa Gira Grant I really wonder how long it will take for it to sink in that sex workers sell a service, not their bodies. I’m a theatre major and have also been paid for some modeling I do. Both of these involve me using my body and skills to provide a service that I am paid for (at least I’m...
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“‘I used to think until you’re eighteen nothing matters,’ said Mary. ‘That’s...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Tender is the Night
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Macbeth, V.v.24-28
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith (via ratak-monodosico)
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