“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.”
— Don Cheadle (via wolfandmay)
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Eros and Thanatos. The inseparable twins. Why did it take a woman to make this connection? Links between women, sex, and death are as old as the primitive nature goddesses who both created and destroyed. Humans have always struggled with the disturbing recognition that cycles of nature contain both life and death. Women’s bodies express disturbing closeness to these cycles in their transformations through pregnancy and the way they bleed in monthly rhythms. They remind us that what is born must die. The womb and the tomb are intimately connected. ” |
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”
— Greta Garbo (Picture Show Magazine Interview, 1927)
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
— Carl Jung (via penseesduchoeur)
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“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.” — Sylvia Plath (via lavandula)
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“To diminish the worth of women, men had to diminish the worth of the moon. They had to drive a wedge between human beings and the trees and the beasts and the waters, because trees and beasts and waters are as loyal to the moon as to the sun. They had to drive a wedge between thought and feeling…At first they used Apollo as the wedge, and the abstract logic of Apollo made a mighty wedge, indeed, but Apollo the artist maintained a love for women, not the open, unrestrained lust that Pan has, but a controlled longing that undermined the patriarchal ambition. When Christ came along, Christ, who slept with no female…Christ, who played no musical instrument, recited no poetry, and never kicked up his heels by moonlight, this Christ was the perfect wedge. Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.”
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume (via soulsetindarkness)
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“In woman and her beauty I saw something divine, because the most important function of existence—the continuation of the species—is her vocation. To me woman represented a personification of nature, Isis, and man was her priest, her slave. In contrast to him she was cruel like nature herself who tosses aside whatever has served her purposes as soon as she no longer has need for it. To him her cruelties, even death itself, still were sensual raptures.”
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs (via soulsetindarkness)
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I Am A Woman Like That
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“When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.”
— Yogi Bhajan (via launicarosa)
(Source: alcke3ma) |
