Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy
Who doesn’t love this dress? It’s so so so beautifully beautiful.
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“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."
Buddha (via amynda)
"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it is lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do."
John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society. (via mister-selfdestruct)
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“Thus, the politics of reclaiming slut expose the fault lines that exist between the discursive, the material, and the symbolic. And the degree to which slut reclaiming will be placed in any of these categories is necessarily determined by the power and privilege that each slutwalker has. If Black women’s discursive acts cannot change our material realities with regard to our sexuality, then our actions become merely symbolic. Our actions will come to exist only in the realm of representation. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. For Black women do have agency. Our voices do matter, and our interventions will contour this mo(ve)ment, though we are unsure yet, just what those contours will look like. But our commitment to discursive acts must be measured, by our histories, by our material realities, by the psychic and social costs and the attendant benefits of such acts for improving the quality of our (sex) lives. We are long past the point of putting our own bodies on the line for political acts that improve white women’s lives while leaving the rest of us in the dust.”
It’s really sad to know that girls are growing up wanting only to be skinny and beautiful because as a child everyone always told them how pretty they were, and it’s what’s fucking everything up. Can we please raise our children to be more than attractive? Stop complimenting them all the time and instead encourage them to talk about books and films and ideas. Young girls shouldn’t have to grow up being insecure because they don’t look like the pretty girls and feel inferior and want to lose weight and change everything about their appearance. They should grow up wanting to change the world and learn as much as possible. We also make this quite obvious to men as well, the pretty women are the ones to go after, the ones you want to hook up with. Women are more than a piece of ass. It should be normal to have a conversation with a woman without expecting her to fuck you just for listening. It should be safe for her to walk down the street without getting taken advantage of. I only want the best for our children and for us.
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"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."
Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Rest in brilliance.
Dr. Maya Angelou… For when you become your own worst enemy.
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“Jennifer Egan gave an interview recently in which she said something like, “Don’t be afraid to write poorly.” Obviously she didn’t mean, “Please publish derivative cliché stories because that sounds fun,” but I like the way she honed in on a piece of advice that’s been going around for years (write every day and work hard). For most of the young women I meet, laziness is not the issue. The younger women who come to my readings are smart and so funny and put-together and frighteningly ambitious. They make me want to hide behind the podium until I can pop out looking and speaking as wonderfully as they do. But the flip side of that is that want everything to be perfect out of the gate. I believe they paralyze themselves with this fear. That’s what Jenny was saying. Basically: get over yourself, have a little faith in your own talent, do something new that only you can and produce above all.”
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