January 2012
31 posts
“More controversially perhaps, Ms. McGregor unapologetically puts her career...”
– New Goal for Women? Rising Above Having It All
Reading the phrase “The girl is dying for acceptance. She craves attention” written as an insult by a man in a comments section and thinking, well, given how little acceptance and attention “the girl” gets generally, through history and in culture, when she’s looked over again and again in so many different spheres, wouldn’t you be looking for it too?
“The TV belongs to Chris’s boyfriend, and so I shouldn’t have broken...”
– Joey Comeau, The Complete Lockpick Pornography
“some women who are in a situation which is terrible for them don’t see a way...”
– kathy acker (via karaj)
“It is rather difficult to have a reasonable, rational conversation about matters...”
– Roxane Gay, The Anger of the Male Novelist
“I have an idea for an Aaron Sorkin show. It’s gonna be called THE...”
– Gawker, obviously.
“…But at the age of 41, at about 94 minutes into “The Divide,”...”
– Drew McWeeny, The Bigger Picture: What happens when we find ‘The Line’ as viewers?
Full Disclosure
theoccasionalbookseller:
As much as I like the Tumblr blog, I don’t actually feel that CanLit is particularly sexy.
“For the most part, however, male authors are somewhat like male porn stars:...”
– The Agony of the Male Novelist
“Nothing good gets away.”
“New York
November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this...”
– John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter (via @_mkimball)
“How do we alter the notion that a woman who stands up for herself, her loved...”
– Litsa Dremousis, I’m Mad at You Because You’re an Idiot, Not Because I’m a Woman
“Women suffer from depression at a much higher rate than men, but I am not...”
– Rebecca K O’Connor, When Barbara Jean Was Missing
“Things I could say should be left unheard and unsaid because I am not willing to...”
– Margaret Cho
“Ask Nelson Algren, or Rilke, or any of them, the way to a woman’s heart...”
– Stephen Elliott, via a letter in the mail
“If you never let up and keep applying pressure, things just kill themselves...”
– Tony Burgess, People Live Still In Cashtown Corners
“In Where I Was From, Didion describes flying across the country—already an old...”
– Caitlin Flanagan, The Autumn of Joan Didion
“They aren’t worried about raping. They are worried about social consequences of...”
– Under Duress: Agency, Power and Consent, Part One: “No”
Sometimes I miss the good news. →
“…every single woman who pioneered the sexual revolution, every...”
– Susie Bright
“…And there are people who prefer to read books and stories where the...”
– Stephen Elliott
December 2011
9 posts
“Oh, serious intellectuals are the same as 13 year old boys.”
– Marie Calloway, Adrien Brody
“Why do women who aren’t afraid to humiliate themselves appall us so much,...”
– Emily Gould
“The problem with your life is behavior, not disclosure. Secrets are what...”
– David Car, The Night of the Gun
“Aiming simply to return to a former normality can have an unwelcome complacency...”
– Tom Sorell
“But working on stories and the attention that came with them was never enough....”
– David Carr
“People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.”
– David Carr, The Night of the Gun
“But when I say that I’ve been swindled I’m referring to the...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35, The Paris Review
November 2011
5 posts
Organon: To all those men who don't think the rape... →
oforganon:
I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something, or connect you to doing something, that, as far as you’re concerned, you’ve never done and would never…
“I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John. There was nothing I...”
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
–
Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
Oh my god, this. All of this.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
Oh look, another way in which women are royally fucked by constructs of femininity.
(via whynotshesaid)
October 2011
5 posts
“Despite so much sociopolitical sexual progress, a woman who yearns to be...”
– Stacey May Fowles, Nobody Passes.
(via youarenotyou)
