June 2011
134 posts
“Here’s a big difference between you and me. You wear make up and you dress in a...”
– Susan Sontag in Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan. (via somethingchanged)
I like this.
“When we observe a woman who seems hostile and fiercely independent some of the...”
– Walter Mischel, psychologist, as quoted in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (via zesticola)
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant →
soupsoup:
In April 2008, I was part of a Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings a year earlier. Lolo died a year earlier, so it was Lola who called me the day of the announcement. The first thing she said was, “Anong mangyari kung malaman nang tao?”
What will happen if people find out?
I couldn’t say anything. After we got off the phone,...
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“…if women just turned around and were honest and said I don’t give a shit, I’m...”
– Caitlin Moran. Spread the word. (via maitresse)
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“The more I do this blog the more I believe that great hair and well choosen...”
– http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– You Don’t Have to Be Pretty A Dress A Day (via somethingchanged)
How have I never put this feeling into words? How exactly spot on this is.
“I got hives. From a necklace.”
– o, world.
