balkan-thug:

egyptiansoapbox:

Cultures that endorse modesty and cultures that endorse hypersexualization are the *same* thing. Both define female sexuality by how it relates to the male gaze. In both cases the female body exists as an ornament either to be kept carefully hidden or put on display. Neither is an empowering feminist achievement. 

Thank you.

yourbatteredheart:

sappho 120 (tr. anne carson) 

myend-ismybeginning:

Source.

otterandterrier:

I’m just a dumb bitch… standing in front of a romcom… asking it to fill the void in my life with somewhat unattainable representations of romantic love

wehadfacesthen:

Jane Fonda in Paris, 1963, photo by Willy Rizzo

artirl:

Prague Photography by d o l f i on Flickr.

allsadnshit:

ailaalue:

man: has anyone ever told you you’re beautiful?
me: oh no sir, today is my first day out of doors and papà forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity

I’ve been laughing at this on and off for two straight days

neckkiss:

via weheartit.

andenglishmen:

Rosamund Pike

aliteraryprincess:

“As a child, aged twelve perhaps, I began to regard Jane Austen as my mother and Charles Dickens as my father. These were the only two constants in my life, the only two people to whom I gave my unconditional love. Austen and Dickens whispered bedtime stories to me, made me laugh, taught me all about life. And soon came three sisters: Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. This was my family and between them they couldn’t do anything wrong. I loved them for their words as others love, without question, for blood or lust or family ties. As I got older I unearthed thrilling aunts and uncles. Greene, Nabokov, Woolf, Updike. Each would come to visit with fascinating tales from worlds a million miles away. And they too earned my love, my adoration. Here was a family I could choose, not the other way round. I read and I read and I loved.”

— Christopher J. Yates, Black Chalk

stars-bean:

Charade (1963) dir. Stanley Donen

bookmania:

“Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else”

— Lemony Snicket

macrolit:

“Punctuation for an invisible sentence.”
- John Updike, describing birds on a wire