let's have another toast for the girl almighty

you are what you love, not who loves you

[books0977]

Keira Knightley with sculpture in “The Lives We’ll Never Live” for Vogue Italia. April 2017. Photograph by Yelena Yemchuk.

Perhaps influenced by Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.

[sunchosens]

You gotta admit there’s a spark.

[swifteras]

I had this vision of all of these flowers growing out of me. My cynical side immediately took it and was like, “Well, the only way that happens is if you’re dead, you’re in the ground, and somebody put some pretty flowers there.” But then this new side that I’d never had access to, swiftly flew in and batted that away and said, “No. That’s you. This is now. This is what’s happening right now and this is what you’ve been digging around in the dirt for during the last year. This beauty and femininity and new strength is going to come out of you.” 

[graecian-archive]

— the song of achilles, madeline miller

[mcrgotrcbbic]

Margot Robbie photographed for Variety | 2017. 

[lightbearers]

Unicorn Store (2019) dir. Brie Larson

[weheartfandom]

Tessa Thompson for InStyle US (December 2015)

[taylorisapuppy]

Now I would look at it and say, today, the person I am at 30, I feel healthy. I don’t necessarily have all the answers and I don’t have everything I’ve ever wanted in my whole life — even though the band is doing great and whatnot. I feel so much gratitude everyday which is a very new thing. It’s a very different kind of thankfulness than I’ve felt in the past, and I think it’s taken a lot of gardening in my heart, a lot of digging up so much soil and finding old roots that were in the way of other things blooming.

[blond-shell]

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer by Peggy Sirota for Entertainment Weekly (2019)

[tenderwiki]

hard feelings/loveless, lorde

[brie-news]

Brie Larson by Lisa Wassmann | In Berlin (2019)

[mappingthexfiles]

Elko, NV / Montello, NV / Route 36, CA “Drive”

[sonsyejin-deactivated20210429]

Ex Machina (2015) dir. Alex Garland

[dailywomen]

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

[poisonyvi]

‘We’re human beings. There are good ones, there are bad ones, and everyone is going to be a mix of everything. We should know by now that female leaders aren’t inherently better people or inherently better anything. I don’t think there are gender differences in the quality of work of anything – as artists, as business people, as human beings. It’s simply humans.’ (x)

[briedaily]

Brie Larson for USA Today. 

[czrenys]

READ IN 2017 »  TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU, & ALWAYS AND FOREVER, LARA JEAN by JENNY HAN