December 2010
42 posts
“I remember feeling ashamed for calling myself a feminist when I had blatantly...”
– Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness, upon reading The Beauty Myth for the first time (via allielovely)
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Aren't we all
Interviewer: Did you hear t.A.T.u's version of 'How Soon Is Now'?
Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Interviewer: They're the teenage Russian lesbians.
Morrissey: Well, aren't we all?
“It is to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Rep. Barney Frank celebrated the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell earlier this week by admitting he is pursuing a “radical homosexual agenda.”
“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. I...”
– Anne Sexton, Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 15, 1971
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“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And...”
– Louis de Bernieres
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
Hospital saves woman’s life; is told by Catholic... →
dr-grumbles:
rosietint:
Now, Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese has written a letter to the hospital in which he doesn’t deny that the procedure saved the woman’s life, but nevertheless deems it morally wrong and asks the hospital to promise that a life-saving abortion “will never occur again at St. Joseph’s Hospital.” That’s right: A religious leader wants a hospital to promise that...
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myrockyspine:
She didn’t believe me when I crossed my heart; I hoped to die, because we all know that I never lie next to the lost dreams I had when I was lost, like us on this winding night—as you stepped the threshold and slapped me, like lightning, for never touching you the way I touched her: skin to skin, finding each other as our hands enclosed the irrevocable past. She ate my heart when...
We're all gonna die alone and be buried in sulfurs...
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_on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the street light.
T H E E N D I S N I G H.
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Watchandreainspired:
LA FEMME - “Amour dans le motu”
Came across La Femme on GRRRIZZ’LY today, and as timeliness would have it, the band is making their way up California this week. Check out their blog for more details (and brush up on your français).
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“The woman who got critics ventilating when she released the inchoate Alas I...”
– “Keeping the Modern World Outside” The Irish Times
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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the...”
– Edgar Allen Poe
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