Circles

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[wat--son]

An outspoken woman is a threat, not just because of the content of what she says, the demands she is making, but because, in the very act of speaking, her presence as a woman is too strongly felt

Women in dark times

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from her novel titled "The Last Man," published in 1826

[atomic-chronoscaph]

August - art by Duane Bryers (c. 1973)

[enchantedbook]

"Palace of Tenderness", Bolesław Biegas, 1928

[constanzarte]

Psyché by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.

[jadeseadragon]

circa 1883, oil on panel

[chronictranssexuality]

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

[wat--son]

Les enfant sont les créateurs de la personne qu'ils construisent

M. Montessori

[lovehina019]

[didanagy]

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993)

dir. agnieszka holland

[gael-garcia]

Girls Will Be Girls (2024 🇮🇳), directed by Shuchi Talati

[rozieramati]

How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

[academic-vampire]

𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢

[cemyafilmarsiv]

The Room Next Door directed by Pedro Almodovar

[reverie-quotes]

Freedom, it seems, has a price. We are defined by what we are not and what we do not have.

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

[artystyczny-nieporzadek]

Art Details Series: Women & Books  | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Lilla Cabot Perry, Louis Emile Adan, Thomas Benjamin Kennington, Seymour Joseph Guy, Delphin Enjolras, Ethel Porter Bailey |

[eowyns]

“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”

— Nikki Giovanni (via writersrelief)

[weltenwellen]

Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress