"I just write the stories I want to read, with women like the ones that I know. The people who pass for females in traditional comic books look like men with watermelons strapped to their chests, carrying big guns and posing like they're in a porno magazine. I've never met any women like that, so I won't put them in my books."

 -- Neil Gaiman (Coraline, American Gods) 

It's a bad man's world

Maria Cornejo (Zero + Maria Cornejo) is one of my new favorite people. When asked about how she would feel if three of her model's tumbled to the floor in bazillion inch heels like at the Hervé Léger show:

"That’s just sad, you know? It’s boys dressing women. I’m sorry — they don’t have to wear the fucking shoes," she said. "It’s quite abusive. Because, you know what? We have to run around and walk, and nobody has a chauffeur waiting for them outside. And it really pisses me off and makes me really angry because it’s that boys thing about making women into victims. You know, it’s not nice."

So yeah, she's kind of awesome and her clothes are super sweet.

--Images and quote from nymag.com

Smart people are the best.

"Ultimately, equal pay isn't just an economic issue for millions of Americans and their families, it's a question of who we are -- and whether we're truly living up to our fundamental ideals; whether we'll do our part, as generations before us, to ensure those words put on paper some 200 years ago really mean something -- to breathe new life into them with a more enlightened understanding that is appropriate for our time."
-- President Obama (I still can't believe I actually get to say that phrase) on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, the first bill he signed into law.

AP photo via NPR

"I don’t know how they’ve managed to brand the recession. I think I might start to make my own cereal called Credit Crunch. It would just be a cereal laced with speed so you don’t need to buy food for the rest of the day."
     --Lily Allen in Interview Magazine

Quote of the Week

"School would be so much more fun if I was a genius."

                    - Dude who sits behind me in math 

Quote of the Week:

"I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. 'Can I interest you in the chicken?' she asks. 'Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?' To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked." 

          -- David Sedaris

--via The New Yorker

"My God, what a help and moral support clothes are."

-- Nancy Cunard