September 2011
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“Anne Sexton sometimes seemed like a woman without skin. She felt everything so...”
– Erica Jong on the poet Anne Sexton (via cameliaoaks)
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“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (via boomvagynamite)
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Over and Over Stitch by Jorie Graham
Late in the season the world digs in, the fat blossoms hold still for just a moment longer. Nothing looks satisfied, but there is no real reason to move on much further: this isn’t a bad place; why not pretend
we wished for it? The bushes have learned to live with their haunches. The hydrangea is resigned to its pale and inconclusive utterances. Towards the end of the season it is not...
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“The miracle arrived
without display. He held a book, and as he read
he found...”
– Scott Cairns (via cameliaoaks)
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Incinerate, Sonic Youth (via sexualsportswear)
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“She is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring he deserves a...”
– Mindy Kaling on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (via bbook)
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“When did this become a race/class/gender issue?!” Uh huh, shut up for a minute. Every issue will continue to intersect with race, class and gender as long as long as there are positions of privilege and subjugation. This question itself reveals that the speaker is either unaware, in denial of, or just unwilling to acknowledge their societal advantages.” ― Heidi Barton Stink
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“The word ‘translation’ comes, etymologically, from the Latin for ‘bearing...”
– Salman Rushdie(via asymptotejournal)
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“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Sady Doyle (via thelastgreatpoolparty)
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At the Edge by Charles Bukowski
a smoky room at the edge, it’s always been a smoky room at the edge. the edge never goes away. sometimes you understand it better, sometimes you even talk to it, you might say, “hello, old friend,” but it has no sense of humor, it slams you in the gut, says, “this is a serious business, I’m here to kill you or drive you mad.” “all right,” you reply,...
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“Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to...”
– Ivern Ball (via j-a-apostrophe-m-i-e)
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Pathos: “A quality that evokes pity or sadness.”
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“A natural response is to change the word feminist to a word with fewer stigmas...”
– Paula Kamen (via petitefeministe)
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10 Things Everyone Should Know About Time →
Time exists. Might as well get this common question out of the way. Of course time exists — otherwise how would we set our alarm clocks? Time organizes the universe into an ordered series of moments, and thank goodness; what a mess it would be if reality were complete different from moment to moment. The real question is whether or not time is fundamental, or perhaps emergent. We used to think...
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“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs...”
– Franz Kafka (via sostrangehere)
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