Quote for Today: Hélène Cixous
I wished that woman would write and proclaim this unique empire so that other women, other unacknowledged sovereigns, might exclaim: I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my …
Look and Listen #21: Mariusz Kędzierski’s Hyperrealistic Drawings
Polish sketch artist Mariusz Kędzierski makes beautiful, hyperrealistic portraits and images filled with exquisite detail. This would be an accomplishment for anyone, but he has done this with no arms. …
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
When, however, one reads of a witch being dunked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man …
Quote for Today: Ethan Hawke
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
The word I love is Arete. It has a simple meaning and a complicated meaning. The simple one is: excellence. But if that were all, we’d just use Excellence and …
Quote for Today: Marilyn Monroe
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my …
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive …
Quote for Today: Stephen Jay Gould
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields …
Quote for Today: Dorothy L. Sayers
A man once asked me… how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member …
Remembering Jean Stapleton: Rebel in a Housedress from Emancipation Conversation
Jean Stapleton may be remembered as the dingy but long-suffering Edith Bunker, possessing a voice that could scratch glass in the rendition of Those Were the Days that opened the Archie Bunker …