"Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…"
— Sylvia Plath (via bookofcowardice)
(Source: raccoonwounds, via bookofcowardice)
"The big joke in the publishing community is that smart editors shouldn’t waste their time at lunches or conferences, but should instead proceed directly to the local elementary schools. There, they will carefully note the boys picked last in gym class, the girls sitting alone in the cafeteria - all of the outcasts, misfits, geeks, dweebs and weirdos - and give them some kind of small identifying tag (much like wildlife services will tag animals to follow their progress through the years). Twenty years later, the editors should track down the kids they’ve tagged, now hopefully grown to more successful adulthood, and say, “Okay, where’s the book?"
— Jennifer Weiner (via noelduan)
(via noelduan-deactivated20121024)
Rebooting my tumblr in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
“And, of course, if you want to go into the history of art even to this day, how many collectors buy because they know or identify or want the work? It’s status and it’s fashionable and you can talk about it. And it’s a whole lot of things. But, if you want to go deeper, how many people on earth face themselves anyway? How many dare to look in the mirror and say they have lived according to their own being? They have lived for the outside world.”
Reading an interview with Louise Nevelson from the Smithsonian Archives of American art.
(Source: aaa.si.edu)
