February 2012
35 posts
“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU.)
“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person...”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers (via primordialnrg)
“What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don’t...”
– Doris Lessing (via nattielu)
“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– From Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy
via Brain Pickings
New years resolution 2012
(yeah, a month and a half late, k)
Unlearning interpersonal habits that originated in bad interpersonal relationships.
“Feminism has had the very unfortunate effect on romantic love of making us...”
– Cassie McLean | The paradox of a beautiful life, more metaphors for love, and the unfortunate side effect of feminism (via quotesforintellectuals)
If Common Sense Was Used in Government and the...
Citizen: I don't believe in abortion.
Government: Then don't get one.
Citizen: I don't believe in birth control.
Government: You don't have to use it.
Citizen: I think gay marriage is a sin.
Government: Don't marry the same sex then.
Citizen: I want my kids to learn about creationism.
Government: Take them to church.
“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue....”
– Stephen King (via quercetum)
Watchthedailywhat:
Happy Man of the Day: Matt Morris’s short film Mr. Happy Man tells the tale of 88-year-old Johnny Barnes, a Hamilton, Bermuda native who spends six hours every day, “come rain or shine,” standing at a local intersection telling drivers he loves them.
[thanks matt!]
There’s actually a bronze statue of him up at his intersection as of a few years ago… Cool dude
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world...”
– Stephen King, 11/22/63 (via michaelbelong)
“The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine thoughts,...”
– Janet Fitch
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch
The Weeks - Buttons
I said, ‘darlin’,...
“Impoliteness marks you as a fool, for it takes away from you an advantage and...”
– The Samurai’s Tale Erik Christian Haugaard (via wildshieldmaiden)
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via eastatlanta)
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