“”As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases.” — Tori Amos
~ Modeled to Fit, Warner Brothers, c1894
via Baker Library, Harvard University
(click to enlarge)“For stout ladies of full figure.” I should keep this around for people who want to argue that there were no fat people in the old days.
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” — David Quammen
“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.” — Sidney Madwed
“The thing that is really hard & really amazing is giving up on being perfect & beginning the work of becoming yourself.” — Anna Quindlen
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This book was called “Sing Song Nursery Rhymes for Young Children”.
75% of the rhymes were about death, dying, being poor, having no hope, and joyful things like that.
I quite enjoyed it.
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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” — C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
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