Kathleen Hanna
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"What (some) bands do is go, ‘It’s not important that I’m a girl, it’s just important that I want to rock.’ And that’s cool. But that’s more of an assimilationist thing. It’s like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I’m more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I’m into is making the world different for me to live in."
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"I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."Saul Bass, who died 16 years ago today.
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"If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both–you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."Ray Bradbury
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"When any of our citizens can’t fulfill the potential that they have because of factors that have nothing to do with talent, or character, or work ethic, that diminishes us all. It holds all of us back."
This is why I do the work I do - all of the organizing, teaching and speaking on women in technology. This is the reasoning. It’s not about quotas, it’s not about handouts. It’s about the principle of potential and valuing individual achievement, and creating a true meritocracy. It’s the core of everything I try to stand for.
Also, turns out single mothers can raise future presidents. Just in case you were wondering.
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"‘You will have to know life,’ she declared, and her voice trembled with earnestness. She took hold of George Willard’s shoulders and turned him about so that she could look into his eyes. A passer-by might have thought them about to embrace. ‘If you are to become a writer you’ll have to stop fooling with words,’ she explained. ‘It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it’s time to be living. I don’t want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.’"Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
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"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."Chuck Klosterman
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"A denial of morality and commitment is not the clever trick many believe it to be for obviating shame or building unassailable character. Indeed such denial reveals the utter absence of character for all to see. Without the bond of commitment nothing can be built and growth becomes impossible. By avoiding commitment you ensure that no one remains committed to you. A life of avoidance is a shrinking life."
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"Here’s a bit of advice, without getting too after-school-special-y: Do it. If you’ve been thinking you should get back into drawing, get out your pens and stick with it. Do you know how many parties and events I miss because of comics? Most. If they made a talking doll of me and you pulled the string, it’d say I CAN’T TONIGHT, I HAVE TO WORK ON A COMIC and probably I’LL BE OVER AS SOON AS I’M DONE WITH THIS PANEL. Very few people become successful by half-assing it. Give yourself a schedule and stick to it. Try not to drive yourself insane. Love it with all your heart and tell everyone you meet all of the time. If all that sounds like too much work, think about the places it can take you."
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"Get writing, get speaking, contact sites that publish articles and tell them your ideas. Contact the organizers of events and tell them what your talk will bring to the event. Don’t wait for someone to do it for you, as that really isn’t the way things are done around here."
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"To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome snake: ‘How many people in this class, would you say, can talk? I mean really talk?’ That had its duly woeful effect. I told them to read every composition aloud, preferably to a trusted friend. … If something is worth hearing or listening to, it’s very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice."Christopher Hitchens
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"I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively…For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don’t lie to yourself and use the wrong words."Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
