November 2012
3 posts
September 2012
17 posts
“There is no such thing as not voting; you either vote by voting, or you vote by...”
– David Foster Wallace
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August 2012
15 posts
“I get really angry when someone says they don’t read fiction because it’s all...”
– Nothing Is More Real Than Fiction (via bookriot)
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”
– Neil Gaiman
“The fundamental difference between the 19th century romantic novels and the...”
– Kristina Deffenbacher, Professor of English at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/159709-lesser-shades-of-jane/#.UCHs_6LE1jI.facebook
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A Cultured Citizen: 5 Legal Ways To Get Free... →
political-linguaphile:
howtodropoutofschool:
1. Open Culture: Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.
2. Book Boon: Provides free…
“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste...”
– Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012 (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“Being a public figure, people talk smack about you, so I found this 24-hour...”
– Newark Mayor Cory Booker, on one of his guilty pleasures.
May 2012
20 posts
“But let us get one thing straight: the best years of our lives are not behind...”
– Yale Daily News column on how we have time to do what we dream of. The writer, 22, died a few days later in a car crash.
Read: The Opposite of Loneliness (via brooklynmutt)
“I just want to tell you what it’s like not to have Planned Parenthood…you have...”
– Representative Gwen Moore, via Ebony (via iamdrtiller)
dank-potion:
“You can’t turn a hoe into a housewife”
“You can’t turn a sexist, double-standard holding, woman-shaming douchebag into anything remotely useful, nevermind a husband”
watching to see the fallout: Members Of New GOP... →
abaldwin360:
The 24 Republican Congresswomen in the U.S. House announced yesterday that they have joined to form the Women’s Policy Committee, a caucus aimed at “raising the profile of GOP women in their roles as lawmakers, highlighting their diverse achievements and providing a…
“It’s a uniquely American prudishness. You can write the most detailed, vivid...”
– Author George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire.) Interview published in May 2012 Rolling Stones Magazine. (via sweetupndown9)
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via buildingmosaicsoutoflife)
“Seek out candidates at every level of government with platforms and track...”
– Nancy Yeager, Thoughts for Our Daughters (and Sons) On Mother’s Day
Lawsonry.com
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“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than...”
– “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)
We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.
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“When Obama made his announcement about gay (marriage), I flashed back to (Lyndon...”
– Historian and LBJ biographer ROBERT CARO, on The Daily Show (via inothernews) 