March 2012
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“Although most boys figure out how to bring themselves to orgasm by age thirteen,...”
– Dorian Solot, I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide.
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“Dutch parents, by contrast, downplay the dangerous and difficult sides of...”
– What the US Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex
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“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
– Lois Wyse
February 2012
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In Remembrance: Women Who Died From Illegal and... →
ereyes312:
The seven women below are just a small representation of the countless women who have died because they did not have access to safe and legal abortions. Most of these women died before Roe v. Wade offered them a safe alternative. However, women continue to die and suffer injury due to current restrictions that particularly affect young women and poor women.
Our government is now...
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“If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in...”
– Kingsley Amis
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“We often told ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, talking,...”
– Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
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“For decades, Barbie’s blond hair, blue eyes, wasp-thin waist and improbable...”
– Sarah Todd (further) explains what Barbie means in Nicki Minaj’s images, hip-hop, and “girl culture” on the R today.
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“If you go home with someone and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.”
– John Waters
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“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Afghans aren’t just rioting over burnt Qur’ans. The US’s 10-year occupation has...”
– @CyrusMcGoldrick
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“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to...”
– Lauryn Hill
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“I have a daughter who’s 10 and we walked past a billboard the other day...”
– Monica Ali
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“Sexism in 2011 is a different, more subtle beast, which shows itself in...”
– Why Sexism is no Laughing Matter
”Why is this kind of casual sexism so prevalent?.. ‘There is a perception that women have arrived, therefore we don’t need to worry about it any more’ It is a perception underlined by the rush of (mostly male) cultural commentators who...
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“If what’s always distinguished bad writing—flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace, interview with Dalkey Archive Press
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“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve...”
– Fidel Castro, 1991
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“Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history...”
– Ed Paschke
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“To avoid being unsociable, one must tell lies and act like a clown, which is...”
– Anaïs Nin, Childhood writings: Christmas, 1919
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“The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi
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“We are expected to believe that using birth control or the decision to have an...”
– Martha Plimpton, “Stop Undermining Women’s Health With Personhood Amendments and Ultrasound Laws”
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“I think we can all recognize that the “it’s a joke excuse” is the most...”
– Loose Talk: You can take your “just joking” and shove it.
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“What if we stopped focusing on the number of abortions and instead focused on...”
– Aimee Thorne-Thompson
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“if I never see you again
I will always carry you
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outside
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– Charles Bukowski
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“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want...”
– Ghandi
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How to Be a Good Guy on the Sidewalk →
How to help make women feel safer and more comfortable in public spaces. “[Emily] May says men can help women as a whole by ‘asking them about their experiences and offering a safe space to talk’ — she adds that many men are shocked when they find out how bad street harassment really is, and that ‘male outrage can be really comforting.’ It can be nice to know that...
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“It took a special kind of guts to be a fuckup as a woman, I thought. To say to...”
– Rachel Shukert, on Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, in You Can’t Rape a Whore: A Love Story