June 2012
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“When sex is construed as the problem and religion as the solution, there is...”
– Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini, Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (p. 128)
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“It no longer occurs to me to query the use of four-letter words, even when they...”
– Mary Norris on profanity in The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/OArE2z (via newyorker)
Hey everyone. Just wanted to leave a quick note to say that I made it home, but am computerless indefinitely, so probably won’t be around much. I should mention, also, that although at moments I am overcome with sadness for the home I have lost, I have spent most of today marvelling at how lucky I am for the one I have. Minnesota is a great place, and the Twin Cities are more lovely and...
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“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. We all have,...”
– Virginia Woolf, Letter, 22 September 1926. (via ohmoveoversylvia)
(Also, hiiiiii newer followers! I hope you are all well and that your dashboards and lives at large are full of wonderful things)
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“Note the fondness in the way Formerly Promising Young Writers think of our...”
– Excerpt from an email from my adviser, who is the unimpeachable best and without whom my life would be indescribably worse.
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences,...”
– C. S. Lewis (via amorette)
I mean I don’t have a ton of C.S. Lewis enthusiasm, but my god if this doesn’t sound like Oxford to me.
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I just can’t with the new Ann-Marie Slaughter piece. If your whole life, your entire conception of feminism, has been building up some cookie cutter “high-powered” career while condescending to other women and you’rejust nowfiguring out that that’s kind of sad and fucked up, wow.
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I’d been the woman congratulating herself on her unswerving commitment to the...
