February 2012
“I find that I get sort of a linguistic erection sometimes. Just words… what they...”
– Seth MacFarlane as Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin on Inside the Actor’s Studio (via libraryland)
“I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin.”
– Patti Smith (via slurring-rhythms)
apleasantsurprise:
“Men fall in love the way dogs make decisions: entirely on instinct and very, very suddenly.”
-from ned hepburn
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
(via jaimealyse)
Archivalia: USHMM-Online-Exhibition "NAZI... →
“Women don’t get raises — even when they ask. Forever research has told women...”
– pushy women don’t get raises either: the atlantic
a longer article at the washington post
the original study (free access)
“no significant difference in the proportion of men and women who asked for raises or promotions”
“no significant difference”
“NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE”
(via sylviasybil)
2 tags
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
5 tags
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s...”
– Maya Angelou
"..it was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in...
nom-de-fume:
From the Paris Review some thoughts on the genre from: Avi Steinberg: author of Running the Books, a memoir of his adventures as a prison librarian, recently out in paperback.
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/01/30/checking-out/
