June 2011
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I think it’s difficult to relate to not having the right to vote, and how important that is. Hearing it from this soldier’s mouth helps.
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best friend vs. my terrible mood
Pk: i will call you in 5 if you want
me: nah, i cant really run out right now. we can do one later if it works
Pk: oh ok. sad face
me: ill be miserable to talk to also
Pk: i love that mood of yours i wanted to be part of it
me: omygd srsly
Pk: yeah, youre my favorite. i thought we could complain together. you know how i feel about kvetching
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Gay Marriage Has Perks for All Women? →
“Same-sex marriage shows that people can make long-term, loving, sexual bonds with each other even where neither is naturally inclined to tell the other what to do. Or to be the natural homemaker or the hunter-gatherer. Same-sex marriage represents the possibility that marriage can be an equal deal after all—or at least one where inequality is not locked in at birth.”
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160 Million Missing Women →
“For many of these antipopulation campaigners, sex selection was a feature rather than a bug, since a society with fewer girls was guaranteed to reproduce itself at lower rates.”
A challenge for women so much bigger than the ones I face.
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The girl and the woman, in their new, individual unfolding, will only in passing...
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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