“Men don’t waste their time on ending things, they ignore you until you insist on a declaration of hate.”
—Joan from Mad Men (via mrenzulli)
April 2012
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Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay →
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Empirical evidence of a connection between homophobia and suppressed same-sex desire.
Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.
We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.
“As I got older and went out into the world I realized it isn’t a very friendly place to be, and I thought, ‘We need armor’…When you see a suit of armor and then a portrait of the person who wore it, you’ll see that the person was sort of tiny and a little feeble, so they put on this great big suit of armor to look a little more frightening.”
—Daphne Guinness (via monsieur-shane-monster)
“Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. Then look, every day, at the choices you are making, and when you ask yourself why you are making them, find this answer: for me, for me.”
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Anna Quindlen, 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech (via le-toit)
Tomorrow: Anna Quindlen
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“Why is anyone the way they are? That’s kind of hard to answer. Why do some people like cheese and other people hate it? Do you like cheese?”
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Fifty Shades of Grey, p. 75.
we got a regular aristotle on our hands here.
(via 50shadesofsuck)
The Maniac in Me →
nytimes.com
If I couldn’t conquer my anxiety, the least I could do was understand it.
