October 2011
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LOVE WON'T SAVE US: Because I’ll Never Swim in... →
ahuntersheart:
Because I’ll Never Swim in Every Ocean, Catherine Pierce
Want is ten thousand blue feathers falling all around me, and me unable to stomach that I might catch five but never ten thousand. So I drop my hands to my sides and wait to be buried. I open a book and the words spring and…
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"Twenty-One Love Poems," by Adrienne Rich
I Wherever in this city, screens flicker with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, victimized hirelings bending to the lash, we also have to walk … if simply as we walk through the rainsoaked garbage, the tabloid cruelties of our own neighborhoods. We need to grasp our lives inseparable from those rancid dreams, that blurt of metal, those disgraces, and the red begonia...
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one day scientists are going to discover that the...
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lilij:
it’s gonna be like when they discovered lead based makeup was bad
you heard it here first
We’ll tell our kids “I would spend hours a day on the internet. We just didn’t know back then!”
Secretly you won’t regret it at all even as you stroke your arthritic fingers and wrists and your eyes rot out or whatever
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“However paradoxical it may seem, I venture to suggest that our age threatens one...”
– Louis Althusser, Reading Capital (via trenchesfullofpoets)
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“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who...”
– Pearl (via sugartalkandpowderdust)
Best description of depression I’ve ever seen.
(via backwardsandinheels)
God, all of this. Every word of it.
(via fashionhasnogender)
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“I stand at the frozen mouth of the river,
Thinking of you.
In the house where...”
– Thomas James, from “Letters to a Stranger” (via proustitute)
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Paul Baribeau, “Ten Things,” Grand...
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“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires...”
– Anais Nin (via thechocolatebrigade)
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"You know when sometimes you meet someone so...
just-as-sane-as:
Seriously love this quote so much <3
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“What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn’t better...”
– The Pervocracy: The end of normal. (via sexisnottheenemy)
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"Slut," by Daphne Gottlieb
i die first in every horror movie, before the innocent boyfriend, the too- curious best friend and the foolhardy pal. death comes blind fast and easy, familiar as the top button of my blouse popping open and suddenly i’m an angel on the cutting room floor, wearing gore, a blank stare, not much more.
i do it over and over. i can play like this for hours.
sometimes i enter a dark room and...
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burn joyfully & give off light: snuffboxisdead:... →
snuffboxisdead:
nototherwisestated:
Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists
womynstudies:
Dear Occupiers A letter from anarchists
Support and solidarity! We’re inspired by the occupations on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country. Finally, people are taking to the…
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“Everything must have been once. That’s why life seems to me like a ghostly...”
– E. M. Cioran, Tears and Saints, trans. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston (adapted from touba)
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The Angry Feminist: fighting back →
lipstick-feminists:
betterlatethanneverrose submitted:
One of the most destructive parts of our society’s view of women is how we are told to sacrifice ourselves.
We are told to go without, in order for people to like us more, to be successful, to have friendships and lasting…
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“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via shagtap)
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Sharing Poetry: Mary Oliver, "October" →
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1 There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave. A longing wells up in its throat like a blossom as it breathes slowly. What does the world mean to you if you can’t trust it to go on shining when you’re not there? and there’s a tree, long-fallen; once the bees flew to it, like a…
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The Angry Feminist: Helpful and harmful things to... →
Helpful:
“You’re doing a great job dealing with the situation.”
“What you are doing is very difficult and you’ve done so much already (list her actions).”
“It sounds like you have really thought a lot about the situation and what you want to do.”
“You really care a lot about your children….
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