April 2012
39 posts
oh, oxford.
what the dictionary on my mac told me when i tried to find a definition of sez (special economic zone):
nonstandard spelling of “says,” used in representing uneducated speech : “Oh Lordy!” sez de man.
girl power →
nytimes.com
In animals as diverse as African elephants and barnyard mice, blue monkeys of Kenya and feral horses of New Zealand, affiliative, longlasting and mutually beneficial relationships between females turn out to be the basic unit of social life, the force that not only binds existing groups together but explains why the animals’ ancestors bothered going herd in the first place.
“I haven’t lost my faith but I’ve lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. … I’ve never really gotten past that quote from Anne Frank in her diary, where she says that people are really good at heart. But I feel like the Catholic Church – no – the Catholic hierarchy has been disinviting people like me and especially women like me for so many years that I finally took the hint.”
—Anna Quindlen on religion and faith [full interview here] (via nprfreshair)
“Each of us is made up of the energy present fourteen billion years ago at the origin of our universe.”
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