December 2009
9 posts
Fail
I really hate that I have been such a massive failure lately with this Tumblr blog. My Tumblarity haunts me as it sinks to frighteningly low levels. I don’t even want to mention it, I’m too ashamed. And does anyone else get hurt when you discover someone has stopped following you?
“Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz
“There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who...”
– Anna Quindlen
“Everybody will come to a book bringing their own life’s experiences and...”
– Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge
“In the realm of unattached, where anything was possible, it was terrifying but...”
– Jill Kargman, The Ex-Mrs.Hedgefund.
This is what frustrates me about the term “chick lit.” Books that are actually quite good and introspective, that create thought-provoking questions about the expectations placed upon women in society are written off because they are entertaining...