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The brilliantly attired women of India

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | 1970

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medusa is a true feminist icon and we should admire her more

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“And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.” - Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

via @quotespile

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from Virginia Woolf’s diaries, February 27th, 1926

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“She cared almost too much for flowers.”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Mrs Dalloway,” c. 1925

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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”

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Virginia Woolf, from The Waves (Hogarth Press, 1931)

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“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

— Sylvia Plath

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“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951

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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

— Sylvia Plath

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

— Sylvia Plath

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“Quiet, yet wild. Rough, and yet gentle,”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”

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“We should meet in another life, we should meet in the air, me and you.”

— Sylvia Plath / Lesbos

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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”

— Sylvia Plath

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“If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. July 1951

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“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

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Sensei Ogui