February 2012
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“When you have 40 percent of kids being born out of wedlock, and among certain...”
– Mitt Romney, at Wednesday’s CNN debate in Arizona.
Hey, you know what prevents unwanted pregnancy? This.
Love the insinuation that poverty IS child abuse. And the racism. That throwaway remark is quite possibly one of the worst things to come out of last night’s debate.
I could say more, but...
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swinton: Remedios the Beauty (Gabriel Garcia... →
swinton:
Extracts from One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (first published 1967; this translation by Gregory Rabassa).
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“Actually, Remedios the Beauty was not a creature of this world. Until she was well along in puberty Santa Sofia de la Piedad had to bathe and dress her,…
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drink your juice.: Still, maybe the best thing... →
Still, maybe the best thing about Liz Lemon is that all her idiosyncrasies—her sourness, her prudishness, her love of “The Real Housewives”—don’t have to mean as much, anyway. When the show started, every bespectacled, slovenly, overworked media chick was delighted to finally have a character…
For the Thrill of It: to-young: Curvy women are... →
to-young:
Curvy women are real women. Skinny women are real women. Women who have had boob jobs or lip enhancements or liposuction are still real women. Size 0 may make no sense mathematically, but a woman who wears that size is as real as the one who wears a size 16. What makes us “real”…
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Aldous Huxley, Island
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"Si avanzo sígueme, si me detengo empújame, si...
-Ernesto “che” guevara.
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BREAKING NEWS: Texas lets 130,000 people (most of... →
stfusexists:
Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination of legislation.
Click through to see what this means for reproductive rights in Texas, and to donate to Planned...
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Wanted to reblog as a quote but the whole thing is... →
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“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via drinkyourjuice)
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger (via iamyourlung)
“We love to name things, because a name tells us where the thing belongs:...”
– Tess Lynch
(via drinkyourjuice)
