“ You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all… If that happens, you’re doing it right. ”
Ira Glass (via prettyeyed-piratesmile)
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“And the point of great writers like [Oscar] Wilde is that they make that invitation to you; they welcome you”. - Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a hero
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Kent Monkman, The Collapsing of Time and Space in an Ever Expanding Universe, 2011
In a life-size museum diorama, the artist’s alter ego Miss Chief, appears simultaneously in the past, present, and future as an aging diva alone in her Parisian apartment listening repeatedly to her one “hit” record - Dance to Miss Chief. Overcome with nostalgia, tears well up as she gazes longingly through a window at a sublime landscape - the trackless forests of her nubile youth but a distant memory. (via)
Jardin Fleuris by Alexandra Sophie
Jardin fleuris is a series of photographs representing the different ages of a woman. The first picture ‘Virgin Soil’ represents virginity, the second ‘Mûres’ which means both “blackberries” and “mature” represents puberty and first periods and the third picture ‘Broken Eggs’ represents the loss of virginity.
“ Becoming a person has been hard.
First off, because we have this belief that in order for an aspect about you to be real, you have to prove some genetic cause. Or at least some childhood inclination. Which doesn’t work if you don’t exist, if all you are is an extension of what you are told you are. I am making myself. I’m taking pieces and seeing if they fit, if I’m comfortable with them, and that isn’t always a clear-cut answer – especially when some of those pieces go against all the training that’s been pounded into me about who I’m supposed to be.
And second off, trying to be a person is…terrifying, to say the least. Because it’s vulnerable. Because you can get hurt, being a person. ”
“ Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. ”
Maya Angelou (via thepaintedbench)
