Men Invented Maps They Had To Spread On Tables So They Could Watch Each Other Bend Over Hands Flat Arms

i am a perfectly nonchalant person. except on days where i crave love. then i choke up and go insane and begin howling at the moon

No offence but without tenderness we are in hell

“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

— Paul Auster, Winter Journal

a while back someone posted an excerpt from a book describing the French government (maybe sometime in the 18th century?) addressing roving rape gangs by creating brothels and filling them with the victimized women. could anyone direct me to it? forgot to save

“Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night. Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.”

“the tradition of the drowning woman in the background of ‘anna karenina’" - sydney schultze // the awakening - kate chopin // hamlet act IV scene VII - shakespeare // “ophelia” - friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser // “utonulá” - jakub schikaneder // the awakening - kate chopin // “la jeune martyre” - paul de la roche // “found drowned” - george frederic watts // david copperfield - charles dickens // the bridge of sighs - thomas hood // “past and present no.3” - augustus leopold egg

I was born to sit in a cafe doing fuck all

my job in the leftist commune is babybel unwrapper and everyone wants to fuck me

me as a mom

Angelina Jolie, 2010