December 2011
49 posts
“I’ve always thought with relationships, that it’s more about what...”
“By definition, the conventional wisdom of the day is widely accepted,...”
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I...”
“I’m a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a...”
“Behind every erotic condemnation there’s a burning hypocrite.”
-Susie...”
“…an effect of the postmodern condition is the erosion of white men’s...”
“Working creatively always entails change. To create is not so much to make...”
“Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up that’s...”
“Beginning from the lived experience of women in their currently constituted...”
“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty,...”
“Performativity beyond a rigid male/female dualism opens up possibilities for...”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
-Jane Goodall”
“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every...”
“You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you’d love to know...”
“In my films I always want to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show...”
“It’s fear that makes us lose our conscience. It’s also what...”
“As far as I’m concerned, being any gender is a drag.”
-Patti Smith”
“I Provoke. Ridicule. Stir passions. Create a travesty. Break moulds. Enhance...”
“Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you...”
“I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”
-Lucille Ball”
“If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was...”
badpicturesofmymediocreart asked: I don't know if you want anymore input on this issue, but I wanted to say this: women can be shit heads too. Maybe it's a bit of a flippant to have in the description of a blog that's trying to empower women, but I get why you used it. And I don't like the idea that all women have to be perfect to be feminists or that we need to support each other JUST because we're women....
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”...”
verticaltime asked: Oh hey. I just wanted to say thanks for being an upstanding individual for not only creating this noteworthy archive, but also (more topically) for handling the criticism from Woolley with such practical grace. Vacuous shitheads was an apt label but a divisive label it is. I'm really glad that you took it in though and made it a dialogue, not a pontificating stream of adversity. Any which...
“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in...”
“Most of the girls I know talk about chemistry and genetics. Where was that...”
“Shit heads. Wow. Sounds like the same ol’ girl hate to me. Of course I...”
– http://sodisarmingdarling.tumblr.com/post/14511994735/on-shit-girls-say-and-girl-hate-from-everyone
Well said, Emma. When I started this blog I never thought it’d reach an audience of over 200 followers - and counting. Might be time for a name change. Suggestions, anyone?
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
-Amelia Earhart”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If...”
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’” -Clare Boothe Luce
“‘We’re showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with...”
“The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.”
-Margaret Cho”
“If you can’t laugh about sex, you shouldn’t be doing it.”...”
“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of...”
“I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.”
-Janis Joplin”
“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and...”
“Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how...”
“For me, it really is about a dialogue. Life can be really isolating or...”
“To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate...”
“Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence, wit, curiosity,...”
“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only...”
“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this...”
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better...”
“It was hard being in a feminist band in the early 90’s, I’m not...”
“For 2000 years, you’ve had the nerve to tell women who we are. We use your...”
“…we have become adept within postmodernism at talking about...”
“We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a...”