October 2011
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.”
—Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
Today is my birthday, yet why don’t I feel any different. In fact, the past few days haven’t even felt different. Today feels like any other day. Except that today, I’m 23.
Random shiznit.
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
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Sandi Toksvig WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS QUOTE
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I’m taking a class called The Archaeology of Sex and Gender (I’m an anthropology and art history major), and we were studying female figurines from the Neolithic era. Some girl in my class brought up the point that when male figurines with giant phalli were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of power. When female figures with giant vulvas were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of fertility. “Why can’t the giant vulva be a symbol of power too?” she asked.
It blew my mind and reaffirmed my decision to study anthropology and art history.
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Always seek knowledge
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Always reblog. This is so awesome.
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“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (via jamesnord)
“If you love the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain”
—Dolly Parton (scatterquilt)
“Personality begins where comparison ends.”
—Karl Lagerfeld (via elyoo)
“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t.”
—The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (submitted via Confuzzzled)
