December 2011
33 posts
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“This willingness among critics and the media to accept and coherent proves far...”
– Janet Badia Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers
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“My arguement is meant, rather, to suggest that the pervasiveness of an...”
– Janet Badia Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers
I seriously just hate everybody right now
oh hello winter depression. I see you’ve snuck up on me again.
Too bad this yea I purchased a SMARTLAMP to ward you off.
Take that.
One teachers approach to preventing gender... →
mindbabies:
think4yourself:
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we...
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Boundaries
Boundaries are inventions of the imagination used to prevent sensory overload; their rigidity is an illusion. Some are put into place for good measure, but you don’t always have to stay confined in them.
“Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our...”
– Seneca (via mindbabies)
“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via proustitute)
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“Politeness. Now, there’s a poor man’s virtue if there ever was one. What’s so...”
– The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (via jessicaloveex3) (via quote-book)
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer (via livejamie)
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The Earth, Further and Further.: Let's Hear It For... →
spoonerette:
I haven’t had a lot of nice things to say about love lately. Maybe it’s because the whole idea is a crock of shit, or maybe it’s just because it hasn’t given me a fair shake. (Remarkably me and just about everyone that I know.) Regardless, I was a strong advocate of this fundamental human belief…
This was wonderfully written (as always) and truly empowering! You should send...
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“For the unbelieving person reality under adverse circumstances, is a force to...”
– “At the Mind’s Limits” - Jean Amery
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home|heart
Home is anchored inward from my ribs next to my heart. It’s heavy at times, and may crack a bone, but it remains with me through each beat that carries me from moment to moment.
“Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in,...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via socalfeminist)
“There is almost nothing that does not signal loneliness,
then loveliness, then...”
– Stanley Plumly, from “In Passing” (via proustitute)
