December 2010
36 posts
If you tell a Muslim woman to take her hijab off,...
Super Relax.: skyecanthink: “I have never been... →
skyecanthink:
“I have never been good at small talk. I go to suburban parties and feel out of place. I feign interest. I stifle a yawn. I want to ask you to tell me dirty things about your sex life. I want to argue with you about the existence of God. Instead, you smile with chemically…
“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
– Albert Camus (via nothingmuchtotell)
“Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms....”
– bell hooks, from Teaching to Transgress (via revolutionnow)
“First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity....”
– Emma Goldman (via spobo-lostcause)
“Everything is temporary, so make it beautiful and then make it disappear...”
– Tarin Towers (via nothingmuchtotell)
“And I will say this about the abstract concept of ‘freedom’; it’s possible you...”
– Jonathan Franzen (via nowaddthefrosting)
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via actyourshoesize)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via michellemacnamara)
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions,...”
– Patti Smith, from Just Kids (via lotusohm)
“Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size,...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via nothingmuchtotell)
“Inspiration is cross-pollinating…so, a piece of mine may inspire a playwright,...”
– Marian Bantjes, TED Talk (via monicaliane)
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...”
– Neil Gaiman in his Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech, The Graveyard Book. (via incandenza)
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep...
as-the-sparrow:
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
— Anais Nin
“I say it is necessary to be a voyant, make oneself a voyant. The Poet makes...”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via motionsgrowthfilms)
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
– David Foster Wallace (via constantflux)
Everything is illuminated: “Yes, I’m a feminist.... →
hyperhearts:
“Yes, I’m a feminist. It is an extension of my lifelong war against pantyhose. To me it means that as women we are individuals before we are gendered people and that we’re not defined by our gender except in the ways we chose to appropriate that definition. We’re in a weird generation, right? Our…
“If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me.”
– Herzog, Saul Bellow (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Yet each one of them in that court would rise above himself for the first time...”
– Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
“How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully...”
– virginia woolf, the waves (1931), p.199. (via modernistwomen)