January 2011
86 posts
Anyone interested?
I am ready for some serious big(ish) city retail therapy.
Lipstick Feminists: On sexism // An excerpt from... →
lipstick-feminists:
Submitted by jahanzebjz:
… and now people assure us that they respect women. Some give up their places to her, pick up her handkerchief; others acknowledge her right to occupy all positions and take part in the government, and so on. They do all that, but their outlook on her remains the…
DEAR ELIE SAAB: ASDASKLHDASDKJSAHD
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Just found out that my undergraduate university may not have sent out ANY of my transcripts even though I was 2 months early in requesting them.
I therefore may not get into graduate school.
gonnaruinyrshoes:
I am hungover, going through withdrawal because I can’t afford my meds, and so angry I feel like throwing up. How am I this angry over ending a “friendship” (if you could even call it that) which only lasted, what, two months? Three? And why THE HELL have I not yet figured out how to see the bullshit coming before it hits me in the face? Erica says its not because I’m gullible,...
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“‘I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’
‘Do you think one can feel too much?...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Dear SSRIs
I’m sorry that I abandon you.
I don’t know why I think I can live without you.
Thank you for always taking me back after I reject you.
I wish you weren’t such an expensive date, though.
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...”
– Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Be not a baker if your head be made of butter.” says a homely proverb,...”
– George Eliot, ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,’ The Westminster Review (October 1856), Vol. 66 (old series), Vol. 10 (new series), pp. 442-461
Etsy or Anthropologie? →
Please stop asking me to help repeal the health care bill. If it were up to me, I would make us adopt the policies of our great neighbor to the north.
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I...”
– David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Hey, remember the guy in the university town who thought it was a good idea to go through Huckleberry Finn and replace the word “nigger” with something less offensive? Not the dude at Auburn. The other one. The one writing this sentence. Tom Sawyer was bedtime reading for me and my two youngest kids (son and daughter, 7 and 9) at the start of last summer. Of course we all loved it. It...
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
I am my own Feminist Fail.
6lbs lost - 19 to go.
