Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.
— Susan Sontag, from “The Double Standard of Aging”
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“in March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.”— Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol 1: 1940-1956
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Dream of the Moon by Russian artist Igor (Krapar) Shcherbakov
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in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.
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there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it
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I am a friend to all cats. Yes even the mean ones. They have their reasons.
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nobody gets it. eyebags are charming and attractive. dark circles rule
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