December 2011
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Madeleine searched along the table for mutual eye-rolling but the other students...
– From The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, and pretty much how I feel in every English class
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If I had a cat
I would name it Mr. Bacon.
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‘How wonderful to be alive,’ he thought. ‘But why does it always hurt?’
– Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (via rephaim)
It’s endlessly fascinating that fundamentalists want to guarantee a fertilized...
– Hrafnkell Haraldsson, in his PoliticusUSA article Personhood USA Strikes Out in Mississippi – Targets Wisconsin. (via gregador)
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There are some songs I can never listen to again
Just sayin’
That feeling of “I’m pretty sure this next step is wrong, but I’m just gonna do...
– Tina Fey, Bossypants (via insomniastrikesagain)
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You know what I learned tonight? As hard as you try, no one can escape the...
– Liz Lemon (via everydaythatyouwaste)
Christmas at my house tends to be a perplexing comedy of errors, so I love this.
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While boys are taught that the things that make them men—good men—are...
– The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said....
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via breakmenow)
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A rich and mighty Persian once walked in his garden with one of his servants....
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via you-learn-something-new-everyday)
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Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...
– (via womenaresociety)
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The louder you laugh and the farther apart you plant your feet, the more respect...
– Erika Lopez
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Mainstream movies are generally stories of men’s lives, which revolve around...
– Caroline Heldman, Associate Professor of Political Science Occidental College - in response to the fact that only 16% of protagonists in movies are female. (via danikamcclure)
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