January 2011
December 2010
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
– Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via khadeejafinds)
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National Geographic Magazine: Chimp "Girls" Play... →
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A young chimp in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania (file picture). Photograph by Michael Poliza, National Geographic/Getty Images
Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Published December 20, 2010
Now new research suggests that such gender-driven desires are also seen in…
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“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
– Hedy Lamarr
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“Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.”
– Ralph Blane
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“The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas...”
– Joan Rivers
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning (via quotewhore)
Rape rampant in US military →
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via omarha-redeye
From Al Jazeera:
A Command Sergeant Major told Catherine Jayne West of the Mississippi National Guard, “There aren’t but two places for women - in the kitchen or in the bedroom. Women have no place in the military.”
She was raped by fellow soldier Private First Class Kevin Lemeiux, at the sprawling Camp Anaconda, north of Baghdad. The defense lawyer in court...