low-maintenance ladyswagger

long-distance caregiving.

long-distance caregiving.

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

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Margaret Atwood, Cats Eye (via richlikecream/floralavenger)

#femalegaze

(Source: iviore, via categoryerror)

amandahess: cordjefferson: Dylan made me a great gif incorporating what I’ve come to find out from people who hear me speak is something I say pretty frequently. A man could have a worse catchphrase, I suppose. WHAT’S BEST IN LIFE? this guy!

amandahess:

cordjefferson:

Dylan made me a great gif incorporating what I’ve come to find out from people who hear me speak is something I say pretty frequently. A man could have a worse catchphrase, I suppose.

WHAT’S BEST IN LIFE?

this guy!

perpetual pep-talkin’ in the magazine bunker.

perpetual pep-talkin’ in the magazine bunker.

gahhhh want to go (back) to there.

gahhhh want to go (back) to there.

(Source: duhsquared)

aminatou: The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver. Chances are she will be doing a man’s job, and for this reason will dress to fit her role. Her hair will be cropped short, so as not to get in the way. She probably will wear the most functional clothes in the daytime, go frilly only after dark. Slacks probably will be her usual workaday costume. These will be of synthetic fiber, treated to keep her warm in winter and cool in summer, admit the beneficial ultra-violet rays and keep out the burning ones. They will be light weight and equipped with pockets for food capsules, which she will eat instead of meat and potatoes. Her proportions will be perfect, though Amazonian, because science will have perfected a balanced ration of vitamins, proteins and minerals that will produce the maximum bodily efficiency, the minimum of fat. She will go in for all kinds of sports – probably will compete with men athletes in football, baseball, prizefighting and wrestling. She’ll be in on all the high-level groups of finance, business and government. She may even be president. IN THE FUTURE ALL WOMEN WILL BE AMAZONS wish i could triple-reblog this.

aminatou:

The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver.

Chances are she will be doing a man’s job, and for this reason will dress to fit her role. Her hair will be cropped short, so as not to get in the way. She probably will wear the most functional clothes in the daytime, go frilly only after dark.

Slacks probably will be her usual workaday costume. These will be of synthetic fiber, treated to keep her warm in winter and cool in summer, admit the beneficial ultra-violet rays and keep out the burning ones. They will be light weight and equipped with pockets for food capsules, which she will eat instead of meat and potatoes.

Her proportions will be perfect, though Amazonian, because science will have perfected a balanced ration of vitamins, proteins and minerals that will produce the maximum bodily efficiency, the minimum of fat.

She will go in for all kinds of sports – probably will compete with men athletes in football, baseball, prizefighting and wrestling.

She’ll be in on all the high-level groups of finance, business and government.

She may even be president.

wish i could triple-reblog this.

More interestingly, she found a third category of men, who were successful in terms of performance evaluations and compensation, but who actually worked fewer hours and were unavailable for the office on evenings, weekends and vacations. These men subtly and skillfully chose the projects and clients that would allow more flexibility — and surrounded themselves with kindred spirits who would cover for one another. But they had also learned that it was better for their careers to remain discreet about their strategy, and so they weren’t role models for the rest.

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Her Key to Efficiency: Arrive Late, Leave Early

informal networks are the key to everything.