00:19"People will stare. Make it worth their while." — Harry Winston (via queerfatfemme)

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23:35"Words are a heavy thing…they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly." — C. Williams (via papaisarollinstone)

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23:57"give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right." — warsan shire.  (via papaisarollinstone)

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23:15"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything." — Irish Proverb  (via anditslove)

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20:58"Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind." — The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht (via clavicola)

22:44"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it." — Maurice Sendak (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)

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22:43"But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." —

Rachel Maddow

Cc: North Carolina

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i am very sad and very disappointed with my home state tonight

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20:39"If the pursuit of happiness is making you miserable, it may be time to take a step back and learn to love, or at least appreciate, gray days and the feeling of frustration. Happiness shouldn’t be an end goal, but a byproduct of living an authentic and vulnerable life." — I just want to be sad, okay? | Nourishing the Soul (via rawwomen)

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20:38"Never underestimate the huge middle finger you are giving to the world when you make peace with your body." —

Frances Lockie (via ourchangingsky)

Am I overstating things to say I think this article is one of the greatest achievements for body-acceptance so far in 2011?

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14:32"Dreams are necessary to life." — Anais Nin (via kari-shma)

23:52"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is." — Kurt Vonnegut (via 3blondmice)

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02:36"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." — Susan B. Anthony (via thinkfree) (via sexisnottheenemy, thinkfree) (via thechocolatebrigade)

22:47"Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling —- I don’t think it’s any of that —- it’s helpless … it’s absence of control —- and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that —- I have no use for it whatsoever." — Toni Morrison (via thechocolatebrigade)

14:57"

You may have learned by now that Sociology majors don’t make the best movie dates, and odds are we Soc majors have probably annoyed our friends on more than one occasion. Those of us trained to think sociologically simply can’t accept anything at face-value, even when we desperately want to. Furthermore, we possess the annoying habit of explaining this fact to others.

You begin to notice times when your family laughs at a commercial while you’re debating the effects of its use of gay stereotypes. Your friends might be moved to tears during a heart-warming drama, but you’re busy identifying the replication of racial power dynamics. And when you get roped into playing dolls with your little cousin, you interrogate a five-year-old about why boy dolls can’t cook dinner, too.

Even if we spoil a friend’s favorite Disney movie, those things aren’t necessarily all bad – and thinking in a sociological style is important. No matter the field you ultimately end up in, there is tremendous value in questioning a presented “fact,” in understanding different viewpoints, and in recognizing the social assumptions existing within the seemingly mundane. Learning sociology shouldn’t be about memorizing solutions to social woes, but examining the world from a lens that aggregates each piece of the puzzle, and seeing the big picture when most do not.

So remain critical of the world around you. The beauty of the sociologically-enthused is that we aren’t know-it-alls with every answer, but we do know, before we accept anything, what questions should be asked.”

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Is sociology ruining your fun? » The Editors’ Desk (via anorable)

my life

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18:00"Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then." — Albert Camus (via thechocolatebrigade)