November 2011
12 posts
“A people is as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves”
– Ben Okri
“Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says...”
– Osho (via lazyyogi)
“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying...”
– Ramana Maharshi (via lazyyogi)
“He who is contented is rich.”
– Lao Tzu (via lazyyogi)
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“Baba Segi held his penis as if it was a hefty bill he had not expected to pay”
– Lola Shoneyin, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
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“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
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Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
Oh my god, this. All of this.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
Oh look, another way in which women are royally fucked by constructs of femininity.
(via whynotshesaid)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via atavus)
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Precious Williams (@preciousthebook) in roundup:... →
Color Blind: A Memoir By Precious Williams Bloomsbury, 241 pp., $24
British journalist Precious Williams upends every expectation about race, class, gender and ambition in her startlingly powerful memoir. It opens in 1971, when, at the age of 10 weeks, the author is deposited by her tall, aristocratic Nigerian mother into the arms of “Nanny,” a tiny 57-year-old white woman in Sussex....
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“Cultural identity is particularly significant for an adopted child because they...”
– Kate Hilpern, The Guardian