May 2013
8 posts
“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
– Frédéric Chopin (via decembrist)
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely...”
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via larmoyante)
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“‘But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger...”
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (p. 59)
Cleopatra, comin’ atcha
Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra has been instructing fashion ever since she appeared on the big screen back in 1963 and now, it’s the film itself that is about to enjoy a revival.
“I am a lesbian woman of Color whose children eat regularly because I work in a...”
– Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism, 1980. (via fuckyeahfeministartandliterature)
April 2013
3 posts
“Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it...”
– bell hooks, cultural criticism — rap: authentic expression or market construct? (via sukforhonesty)
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March 2013
32 posts
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“I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been...”
– Richard Burton’s Diary Entry (November 19, 1968) (via miss-bateman)
Toxic Masculinity →
givingmelife:
If we want to end the pandemic of rape, it’s going to require an entire global movement of men willing to do the hard work of interrogating the ideas they were raised with.
“We don’t raise boys to be men. We raise them not to be women, or gay men.”
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“In a world where women still worry that they are “too much” — too big, too loud,...”
– from Elizabeth Taylor: Heavy Like Wet Roses by Caitlin Moran (republished in Moranthology)
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“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (via dionysusandapollo)
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via left-nut)
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“She’s so hurt. She is one who does not know what she suffers from, or why, or...”
– Anaïs Nin, Ladders To Fire (via violentwavesofemotion)
Bette Davis Tribute →
Still teaching girls how to scare the hell out of a man.
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“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change...”
– Frida Kahlo (via audreylostinparis)
“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was...”
– Anaīs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 4 (1944-47)
fromtextpoststoeternity:
“The most important thing of our marriage is this continuous excitement, this wonderful creature called Elizabeth who fills me with spiritual and physical joy every time I see her. Her spirit bubbles with an inner force like life itself and not like champagne which goes flat after a while.” - Richard Burton
February 2013
24 posts
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via larmoyante)
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...”
– Alice Walker (via oh-sweet-pea)
“Traveling with Elizabeth is a kind of exquisite pain. Let me explain why this...”
– Richard Burton, quoted in Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
Seriously, though, that last line DESTROYS ME. (via michellevider)
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