September 2011
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“It’s like morphine, language is. A fearful habit to form: you become a bore to...”
– William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
“I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s...”
– the ch!cktionary — The Patriarchy Wants A Lesson On Privilege 101
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Well well well.
You’re terribly predictable.
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“I feel like we’re all wounded and we can carry wounds throughout our lives. It...”
– Lykke Li
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“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live...”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick (via universoul)
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“Nietzsche substitutes the correlation of sense and phenomenon for the...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (via digitalpidgin)
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“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation...”
– David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via judyxberman)
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“I am a lesbian woman of Color whose children eat regularly because I work in
a...”
– Audre Lorde (via newwavefeminism)
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“You’re not going to be different … you’re going to be the same as you’ve always...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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And every single time after, I always wonder why I put myself through this.
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Toni Morrison on the Injustice of Public Whipping... →
“I have been wondering how much courage it takes to lash a woman. (Even guillotine executioners had the decency to mask their faces to hide their shame as they cut off heads.) Perhaps the man who whipped you took pride in his expertise: in never missing, always connecting his whip with your flesh. How satisfying it must have been to maul a helpless, weaponless female. How empowering, how...
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“Don’t tell me you don’t know what you want from your life. Don’t ever say that,...”
– What Should I Do with my Life, Now? (via yesyes) (via matchartbox)
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