I know you from another picture

[bakewake]

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

[bakewake]

There’s no art if it doesn’t express the truth.

[bakewake]

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

[bakewake]

“In truth, my husband and I were persons of “quite different construction, different bent, completely dissimilar views.” But we always remained ourselves, in no way echoing nor currying favor with one another, neither of us trying to meddle with the other’s soul, neither I with his psyche nor he with mine. And in this way my good husband and I, both of us, felt ourselves free in spirit.”

― Anna Dostoevskaya

[bakewake]

But there are so many things which disturb me. I can’t just sit back and take them calmly. I must cry out against them.

[bakewake]

“Because she was beautiful, passionate, a genius and I loved her.”

 —Ted Hughes on why he married Sylvia Plath

[bakewake]

But there are so many things which disturb me. I can’t just sit back and take them calmly. I must cry out against them.

[bakewake]

It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.

[bakewake]

And then I become sad, just so I can rest. I come to cry, tamed by sadness. Then I get up and begin again.

[bakewake]

“And then I become sad, just so I can rest. I come to cry, tamed by sadness. Then I get up and begin again.”

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

[ID: text seen as; ‘(JULY IS OVER AND THERE’S VERY LITTLE TRACE)’

a poem by Frank O’Hara]

[newyorker]

“Sometimes a movie you love fuses privately with your identity, no matter how distant the world of the movie may be from your life.”

— Rachel Kushner, “Finding Yourself in Film” 

[bakewake]

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

[bakewake]

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

―Alice Notley

[bakewake]

You have to be patient. People don't always get you the first time.

[bakewake]

"I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!"

[bakewake]

“I was born to understand, not to obey.”

Juana Inés de la Cruz