June 2nd, 2012 at 5:19PM
Falling in love for the first time is always dangerous, but when you’re foolish enough to fall in love with a fictional character you can pretty much be assured it’s going to be unrequited. Also, you’re not going to be the first, or the last, for that matter, to have been involved with this fictional character. He’s got a string of women, some of whom have been involved with him for years, rereading him again and again. And in the long run he belongs to his author, heart and soul. — Alice Hoffman (via j4zzman)

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June 1st, 2012 at 6:27AM
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. — Simone de Beauvoir (via the-visual)

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May 31st, 2012 at 5:56PM
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? —

Sandi Toksvig 

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May 31st, 2012 at 1:56AM
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. — Deepak Chopra  (via infinitexposure)

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May 30th, 2012 at 9:15AM
After all, human beings are like that: When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. — Gertrude Stein (via illegiblemessss)

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May 30th, 2012 at 8:23AM
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)

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May 29th, 2012 at 5:18PM
There is no beauty without some strangeness. — Edgar Allan Poe  (via cobaltinmyveins)

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May 29th, 2012 at 4:17AM
quote-book: made by tripudios

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May 26th, 2012 at 5:53PM
You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:
One day you will be sick. —

Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl 

This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their feelings about love (considered blasphemous), and their doubts about religion. 

One of the best articles I’ve read all year. Here’s the link

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