[asmallpresslife]

[black-sun-red-fleurs]

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” - Ernest Hemingway

[deadly-calm-inside]

I know my value. Anyone else’s opinion doesn’t really matter.

Peggy Carter (via 2ndstarlordtotheright)

[georgeorsonwelles-deactivated20]

New York Film Academy’s study of gender inequality in the film industry.

[rhamphotheca]

[maxkirin]

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

Vishwas Mudagal

[the-daily-feminist]

"Though we have the courage to raise our daughters like our sons, we’ve rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters."

Gloria Steinem (via the-daily-feminist)

[weatherthisdanger]

[hazelcills]

CRYING

[theparisreview]

“People are much too solemn about things. I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds, and that sort of thing.”

 —Aldous Huxley

[black-sun-red-fleurs]

Increasingly, we’ve become a culture that insists on resolution and explanation from our stories. We need to know who did it as immediately as possible. We need to know how True Detective ends, even before we’re halfway through the goddamn season. We need to know if the science is right in Interstellar, and why the characters in Game of Thrones, a show set in a world that contains dragons, are so mean to each other. Ambiguity has become like the Postal Service: We tolerate it only when absolutely necessary. Less and less are we content to be told a story; more and more we want to tell that story ourselves, showing that we get it, we got it, we figured it out. Reality doesn’t work like this. In reality, the amount we do not understand, and aren’t aware of, is so overwhelmingly larger than the amount we can grasp that, as proto-civilizations, we had to fabricate stories to help ourselves mentally exist. We kept doing this — telling stories — but in many cases, we didn’t change the way we told them, even though the amount of information we had about the world continued to grow. The way we tell these stories still works, of course, particularly in the pursuit of drama and comedy, theatrical concepts that have been more or less understood since Aristotle.... ...Just stop trying to understand it, as though it’s a math equation or an Ikea manual, and you’ll understand it.

Inherent Vice and the Modern Audience’s Ambiguity Problem By Kevin Lincoln

[the-daily-feminist]

[thewritewire]

[thewritewire]

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.

Mandy Hale

[murmurrs]

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean Luc Godard

[psych-facts]

People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.

Hans F. Hansen  (via awelltraveledwoman)

[black-sun-red-fleurs]

I'm not normal.  I don't want to be. I don't pretend to be. I am me.

[black-sun-red-fleurs]

She needed a hero, so that's what she became.