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But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. It’s a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what she’s worth.

“The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, ‘Honey, you’re doing OK’ — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,” Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a “transaction of grace,” might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: “If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”

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Morgiana (Juraj Herz, 1972)

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Excerpt of "East Boston, 1966" from God's Silence - Franz Wright

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Every night I ask myself "is it better to stay up and make sure something gets done, or bank on going to sleep early-ish and being more productive tomorrow" and then land on a worst of both worlds compromise.

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“Today's miniature delight, pear cake and a jar of pear compote. This delicious looking dessert is set on a super fine white ceramic plate, and has been already sliced, letting you see the realistic texture inside. Look close enough and you can catch a glimpse of the tiny seeds inside. The glass jar with the compote comes with its own functional lid, to open and close as you like."

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okay I was really scared for princess of power bc I liked butterfly but didn't really click with cupid's girl and did I NOT like cuntissimo but most of the other songs on this album are soooo smooth and fun to listen to and and and. adult girl is everything I loooooove about marina's music distilled into one song <3 family jewels was THE album of my teenage years and now adult girl is the perfect little handwave to my 20s 💕

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Vision of Saint Genevieve

Alphonse Osbert, 1892

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on my way! to live yet another day in my fucking life.

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Wachifield Tarot

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I am happy because everyone loves me

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ERL, Fall 2023

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Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘Prophecy Girl’ stills

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after a suicide attempt in 2016

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LITTLE WOMEN 2019 — dir. Greta Gerwig

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Perhaps Louisa didn't need to detail what Marmee is so angry about nearly every day of her life. To be a woman is to know anger. To be underestimated, treated as inferior, have one's concerns classified as minor, to do all the work and receive none of the glory— how could one not feel angry? And yet in order to be a good woman who stands a chance at being loved and accepted, back then and still very much so now, one has to learn, as Marmee advises Jo, not to show it, even better not to feel it. Anger in a woman runs the risk of being pathologized, penalized, criminalized. A woman is supposed to bear the violence of patriarchy— both the bloody and the bloodless forms— with unflappable cheeriness. —Jenny Zhang, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

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