February 2012
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A BOY keeps a password on his phone while a MAN is confident enough to say “Babe can you answer that for me?” A BOY runs in the streets and chills with his friends while a MAN is enjoying time with his woman planning ahead the future. A BOY complains about spending too much time with his woman, a MAN plans vacations and getaways because he is wise enough to notice that tomorrow is not...
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Just had an old couple come into work and after observing them both it was clear that they were quite different in personality, with the wife being an extrovert and the husband being an introvert. The husband must have picked up on me watching them because he just smiled at me and said “I just let her be”. And isn’t that the most beautiful thing, someone who just let you be as you are.
“It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.”
– George Carlin (cf.)
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things,...”
– Jim Rohn (via soul-surfer)
“How do you become a mom if you are into birth control?”
– RUSH LIMBAUGH, posing a rhetorical question as only a white male conservative can, in radio remarks broadcast on the Fox News Channel.
Here’s a question, Rush: What the fuck gives men the alleged right to ask such stupid fucking questions?
(via inothernews)
“I expect what you wished to say was that it was impossible to put a price on any...”
– The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via nowaiting)
What's bad about a Taurus: you're stubborn and...
“When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...”
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (via clavicola)
What's Good about a Taurus: you're stable,...
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive....”
– Howard Thurman (via taintedperspective) (via nowaiting) (via brasilpop)
“Everyone should have access to therapy. I don’t see it as a bad thing. It’s the...”
– Emma Forrest (via psychotherapy)
“Show emotion and you are too fragile, untrustworthy, and incapable for the...”
– Female Candidates and the Emotion Doublebind (via suzywire)
“When we complain about men raping, abusing, harassing, and refusing us our human...”
– Unknown. (via futureabortiondoctor, inherhipstheresrevolutions) (via aoawaywego) (via she-hulk-smash) (via loveyourchaos)
“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the...”
– Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting...”
– Shana Abe (via eletheowl)
“We’re the risks we take
but even more than that, we’re
the ones we didn’t.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is...”
– Rumi (via sevdaverdana)
“I feel like talking always brings us closer to understanding, rather than...”
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Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science at Tulane University on talking about racism
(via thesporkreport)
Exactly why I care so much about bringing all sorts of shit up about racism, misogyny, rape culture, heterosexism, ableism, etc.
(via she-hulk-smash)
“The white man does not make the sun shine!”
– bell hooks’ grandfather (via cuntymint)
“The sex drive of men is something we are all comfortable with in this country....”
– (via feminishblog)
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to...”
– Margaret Atwood (via songsforbirds)