“...I have a thousand little stratagems
In my head, which give me as many hopes:
This unlucky restraint upon our Sex,
Makes us all cunning.”
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“...I have a thousand little stratagems
In my head, which give me as many hopes:
This unlucky restraint upon our Sex,
Makes us all cunning.”
... the reality is that grammar and morality don‘t actually have anything to do with one another, and attacking a bigot‘s poor grammar does not itself prove you are a better person .... the moral significance of what someone says is about the content, not the grammar. As Cameron says, “ Hitler wasn‘t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence.” pg. 163
I should‘ve taken more linguistic classes in college. #missedopportunities
pickPowerful men are powerfully petty and lame. Everything about modern politics makes so much more sense when you learn the things that have been left out of the history taught in public schools in order to make the myth of the USA possible, tidy, and clean.
From our prisons to our ghettos, from our boardrooms to the Oval Office, from gangsta rap to the Patriot Act, America is a hardboiled nation. To have faith is to be a fool. To expect justice is to accept tyranny. To rally around the flag is to support the torture of human beings while reading our children the Constitution and watching sitcoms about cranky old white men and their beautiful, young, and scantily clad wives—and girlfriends. - p.598-99
“5-year-old Amy Burney ... threw too many tantrums. To exorcise the demons responsible, her mother and grandmother forced her to swallow a potion made primarily of vinegar and ammonia, taped her mouth shut, and ... threw her body out with the garbage. You could happily go your whole life without hearing that ... story, but maybe you should hear it anyway. Maybe you should have to. There is deep brutality in how we fear our girls.”
“Across all races, there are more women than men enrolling in colleges and universities, but the percentages of men enrolling has remained steady. In other words, it‘s not that men are declining to enroll; it‘s simply that women are doing so in greater numbers. But the articles written about this phenomenon have presented it as a titanic crisis.” pg. 201
“I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.”
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
“While Roe and the cases that preceded it made birth control and abortion legal, they did nothing to curtail the coercive power our government wields over the bodies of those who can give birth.”
I think of that moment often now. I think: how often the effort of knowing someone is undermined by one‘s wish to. I mean, it can be quite hard to see or hear a person amid the bright bellowing of one‘s own projections. The world is a negotiation of wishes, after all, and where desire is strongest, so are illusions. (pg. 240-41)
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
“I wasn‘t aware that word could hold so much. I didn‘t know a sentence could be so full.”
The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore, The Game by Laurie R. King, Hostile Makeover and Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum #purplebooks #day25 #riotgrams
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks #bookclubfriendlyreads #day23 #riotgrams
The Great Gatsby is one of two books I re-read annually #afavoriteclassic #day22 #riotgrams
I still don‘t know how to knit 🤷🏼♀️#howtobooks #day21 #adaylate #andadollarshort #riotgrams
Sirius Black (the puppy, not the falsely accused convict) and (one of my )my current read(s) #booksandpets #day20 #riotgrams
The Library Book made me appreciate how important libraries are to communities and overall public health #mylibrarycard is always in my wallet #yourlibrarycard #day19 #riotgrams📚
Logan + Veronica = LoVe #shipsshipsandmoreships #day18 #adaylate #andadollarshort #riotgrams
“Rather, she was ambitious at a time and in fields where there were few possibilities for a colored woman to shine.
And before we decide she that was too ambitious, we must ask ourselves whether if Eunice had been white and male and had the same resume, she would not have gone further in her career. If our answer is even a tentative yes, then to criticize her for ambition amounts to little more than demanding that she stay in her place.”
I got this book for last #galentinesday #abookIvebeengifted #abookyouvebeengifted #day14 #riotgrams📚
The Clue of the Broken Locket & The Message in the Hollow Oak by Carolyn Keene #endpapers #day12 #adaylate #andadollarshort #riotgrams
“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.” -Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood #friendshipbooks #day11 #riotgrams
Souther Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster #abookandamug #day10 #adaylate #andadollarshort #riotgrams
Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles on my (dusty) nightstand #currentread #day9 #riotgrams📚
“But what happens—movies never address this—when there are no people left? Will the zombies starve?have a seat? Begin to think perhaps they acted rashly? Become university chairs? Occupy tollbooths?”
I close my eyes and think of Dante and Fitzgerald and Hemingway, of my own great potential—a Towering Inferno in which I‘m trapped at the top. I place myself at the end of a long line of great authors, a top ten list of literary insomniacs. Dante, Fitzgerald, Hemingway ... What great works might I yet write? I could become a great author! I could become ... I could become ...
“Most people who‘ve been abused as children never hurt a fly. But of all the people who hurt flies, almost all of them have had their wings broken themselves.”
Having read the first chapter on a train up to Transylvania, I can safely say that once I get back into it, it‘s going to be #outofmycomfortzone But a bookseller in Sibiu (I think...?) says the author is best modern Romanian writer #day6 #riotgrams
“People bury things in their house; things they can‘t get rid of but can‘t take with them. They weren‘t physical, but they were there all the same. All houses were haunted. Some by the past or the future. Some by the present.”
Rudolph Fisher‘s detective novel and collected short stories #blackhistory #day5 #riotgrams📚
Leather bound set of Jane Austen‘s works #PrettiestBooksIOwn #day4 #betterlatethannever #riotgrams
Solving crimes with fashion #sportsofallsorts #day3 #riotgrams
Visited the library book sale to stock up on #springreads #day2 #riotgrams
“She had a friend everyone called ‘Blackie,‘ because she dyed her hair with shoe polish. Blackie‘s favorite saying got to be one of Holloway‘s favorite sayings, too. Blackie would say, ‘God, Missus, there ain‘t a man on Earth worth a foot in Hell.‘”
“I learned in that courtroom that the rights of the victim do not equate with the rights of the defendant. Anything can be said about the dead, and much was, but the killer‘s grave past offenses as a beater of women were kept from the jury. The testimony of another of his victims, who had been hospitalized as a result of his acts of violence was, inexplicably, ruled inadmissible."
“We‘ll burn it all by the end, you‘ll see. Whether in a hundred years or three.”
