December 2010
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were coming or I’d have cleaned...”
– The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image...”
– Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (via briarbird)
“I can still remember the despair that overwhelmed me when my mother told me that...”
– Notebooks 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
“How am I to recapture the numbed feeling that came over me after that horrible...”
– Four Days by Vsevolod Garshin
“If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred...”
– Notebooks 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
“Its presence is a torture for the eyes and for the soul, because beauty is...”
– Notebooks 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The...”
– A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession, and I must...”
– Notebooks (1935-1942) by Albert Camus