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fyeahkerrywashington:

2012 Winter TCA Tour | Scandal Panel

wixsey:

“There are patterns in my life, aspects of my personality that are still there and were there as a child, my mother always said I was single-minded. There was no compromise with me, she felt powerless as a parent. I just don’t think I ever needed parental approval. I want to do this now, and I am going to do it. My mum says she didn’t know where I got this attitude from, this idea that I could do anything I set my mind to. But she learnt after a while there was no point in arguing with me because I just don’t give in.”

(Source: emma-wicks)

MIA, by Ryan McGinley, 2010

“We had to basically rig a truss for this swing; it was a major production to make sure it was safe. I tried it out. MIA might have gotten there and said, ‘I’m not doing this; this is too crazy.’ But she got on and just started swinging like it was something normal. I remember her ­saying, ‘If I’m going to go out, this is an awesome way to go.’”

(Source: Guardian)

thepoliticalnotebook:

“Today, my ACLU connection would probably disqualify me,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told students at a lecture series at Southern Methodist University’s law school. Before being nominated to the court in 1993 by Clinton (and confirmed 96-3), Ginsburg had spent time working as the Director of the ACLU’s Women’s Right Project. These days, she says, her work as a women’s rights attorney for the civil rights organization would prevent her from being confirmed by this Senate. 

ThinkProgress calls her “single most important women’s rights attorney in American history” for her work with the ACLU. She was instrumental, as they note, in two particular cases: Reed v Reed and Craig v Boren. The first case marked the first instance in which SCOTUS ruled that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment applied to women. The second case resulted in a ruling declaring that gender discrimation laws “were subject to heightened constitutional scrutiny.” Her role in gender equality under the law in the United States has been unparalleled and indispensable. And that would probably mean that she would not be confirmed today.

Above: Via ThinkProgress, Ginsburg during her time with the ACLU.

(Source: thinkprogress.org)

[on writing her own music] It’s fun, it’s a statement to yourself to be free.

6 favorite pics of… | Regina Spektor

GLAMOUR: Reader Brittany Buhler of Evanston, Illinois, wants to know: “What challenges have you faced in politics? Has it been harder because you’re a woman?”

SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m not going to mislead anybody. Politics is really hard. And it is harder for women. There’s a double standard, and you can’t complain about it. You just have to accept it, and be smart enough to navigate it. And you have to have a pretty tough skin. To paraphrase a favorite quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: If a woman wants to be in politics, she has to have the skin of a rhinoceros. Most men who go into politics just think they’re great. They believe they can do anything. Most young women, not only in politics but in most areas, are more cautious and more likely to say, “Could I really do this? Am I good enough?” I was talking to a friend and very successful businessman the other day, and he said, “The thing that still annoys me more than anything is that I see all these young women who are so much more capable than they allow themselves to believe. And I see so many young men who are so much less capable but who believe they are God’s gift to the world.” I would just say to women: Try it! Put your foot in the pond and see if you want to swim.

Kate Winslet reads “Mr. Gum” to a group of young children at the Port Eliot Festival.

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Girls, if a boy says something that isn’t funny, you don’t have to laugh. — Amy Poehler

bicurious:

My little labor of love in celebration of two of my lady heroes.