February 2012
50 posts
“I’ve realized lately there’s no special immunity for writers, like I use to...”
– Marie Calloway
Paging @emmamwoolley
msjamiekeiles:
i actually have no idea what to make of this rihanna thing.
like, it broke my feminism.
“Lee: You have to let people be witnesses. It’s the most human thing, to...”
– Tamara Faith Berger, Maidenhead
“Excuses are the stories we tell because we don’t trust or respect each other, an...”
– Corey Mintz
“There is a particular kind of anxious frustration that starts to build with this...”
– Emma Healey, Maisonneuve
“I can give you the in because I know you wont hurt me with it. You know my...”
– The Nicest Thing Anyone I’ve Written a Piece About Has Ever Said To Me
“It just feels like an extension of me now. Not a tool.”
“I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got...”
– Joan Didion (via pocketfullofspears)
“There is nothing better than knowing the suffering can stop, than knowing you...”
– Roxane Gay
“‘Mr. Nabokov, would you tell us why it is that you detest Dr....”
“There is a lot to be said about the removal of choice and its benefits. That...”
“I have a theory that elegant people have an aura of impenetrable private...”
– Lauren Cerand, On Elegance
“Some grief cannot be touched.”
– Carrie Snyder
“…if she is bold, if she exudes vague hysteria, it is because she has no...”
– Carrie Snyder, The Juliet Stories
“They are looking for something simple: proof of their own power. They want the...”
– Carrie Snyder, The Juliet Stories
“Do The Literati all live on farms, still write on old manual typewriters, while...”
“I think that “privacy” is to contemporary female art what “obscenity” was to...”
– Chris Kraus via @la_panique
“The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national...”
– Stanley Elkin
“It’s hostile in that you’re trying to make somebody see something...”
– Joan Didion
“The wars are really over. We can fill the trenches we dug and walk on land...”
“I’ve always considered the whole Writing Practice idea as yet another example of...”
– Dodie Bellamy, via
I want to walk around an all night supermarket in an animal mask and drink milk straight from the carton.
“Rape culture is 1 in 6 women being sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. Rape...”
– Rape Culture 101, bears repeating.
“I notice that under his uniform sweater, there’s a T-shirt tag sticking...”
– Joey Comeau, We All Got It Coming
“Maybe that’s why I write. As a sort of apology for all of the fucking up I...”
– Marie Calloway
“Here’s the thing with “Letting go”
It’s basically...”
