cut from marble

aries, enfp.

[happyheidi]

[clothedinblack]

Even the thrift shops are filled with fast fashion now

[thescarlettbitchh]

[federer7]

Jinx Staring. Florence, 1951

Photo: Ruth Orkin

[m1male2]

Ponte Vecchio, Florencia

[ryebreadgf]

girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

[ryebreadgf]

I got a message about how this is supposedly mean. I am holding your hand when I say that refusing womanhood and clinging onto girlhood will not save you from the realities of adulthood. I am not saying you are not young. 26 is incredibly young. you are free to love the concepts and media associated with girlhood but there is much to love about womanhood that you are not seeing. there is something to be said for being free of the shackles of girlhood and childhood. you are an autonomous being. you have power over your life and the paths you will take. it is easier to see the paths when you start taking yourself seriously instead of waiting for others to do so. no one is saying you have to be serious. womanhood is joy too. a different shade of yellow

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Mary Oliver

[ohthebrave-deactivated20180212]

It doesn’t happen like that. You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day. You must learn to handle your issues with grace because you respect what they are attempting to teach you. You must drown your insecurities slowly, one self-realization at a time. You must allow yourself to feel the fear bubbling just beneath your skin but you must never allow it the satisfaction of crippling you; grit your teeth and march on. You see, they never tell you how hard these things will be. This fight to reclaim yourself is not easy or straightforward but, my god, is it necessary. 

[sovietpostcards]

A scene from Giselle in the Bolshoi Theater. Photo by I. Yefimov and E. Michurina (Moscow, 1956).

[summer-moons]

Light on the water.

[mona-l1sa]

[allthingseurope]

Saint-Malo, France (by Ronan Potier)

[tkkatherineblog]

[shiva-mizani]

[bruntalism]

Shirin Neshat, Iranian-American artist, whose exposed body parts are covered with Persian script with Farsi quotations from Iranian feminist erotic poetry. Iran. 1997

[shihlun]

[wetheurban]

Love yourself enough to sit with the discomfort of growth because you know you deserve better.