“I mean, a new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you’re living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.”
— D.V. by Diana Vreeland (former editor in chief of Vogue)
“
When you inevitably can’t fit into a garment, the stylist’s assistant will be sent in to help you. The stylist’s assistant will be a chic twenty-year-old Asian girl named Esther or Agnes or Lot’s Wife.
In a few years she’ll be running the editorial staff, but at this point in time her job is to stuff a middle-aged woman’s bare ass crack into a Prada dress and zip it up,
”
—
Tina Fey in her new book, Bossypants. She knows what’s up.
I have never assisted on a photoshoot with Fey, but I have assisted on photoshoots with her co-workers, and they are all so kind and funny. Love comedians.
“I think personal blogs are for people with insomnia and not enough friends. A girl has to do something in the middle of the night to convince herself she’s not entirely insane. Oh Sylvia Plath. If only you had a WordPress!”
“We can bear a lot.”
—
Anonymous
This person probably didn’t realize how profound these words were to me. I repeat these to myself all the time now.
“We don’t care about what you do. We care about who you are.”
—
Japanese tea ceremony instructor at the Urasenke Chanoyu Center
Today was quite an interesting day of Japanese culture — and culture in general. My friend and I scoped out Japanese fashion at the Japan Fashion Now exhibit at the museum at FIT, partook in a Japanese tea ceremony on the Upper East Side, and ate sushi at a nearby Japanese restaurant. We also visited the church where Andy Warhol used to sit in the back every day.
I send my prayers to the brave people of Japan. I know there are disasters every day, and I know there is pain every day — disasters and pains I cannot perceive. But in moments like these, the world seems to come together. Or at least some people.
“Bullying can have destructive consequences… it’s not something we have to accept … And I have to say, with big ears and the name that I have, I wasn’t immune. I didn’t emerge unscathed.”
—
President Obama on bullying, White House Conferenece
Source: MSNBC
(via junimujj)
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
—
Sandi Toksvig (via iamateenagefeminist, learninglog) (via youdontlooklikeafeminist) (via rosietint)
WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS QUOTE
(via the-madame-hatter)
(via catladysoul)
I’m taking a class called The Archaeology of Sex and Gender (I’m an anthropology and art history major), and we were studying female figurines from the Neolithic era. Some girl in my class brought up the point that when male figurines with giant phalli were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of power. When female figures with giant vulvas were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of fertility. “Why can’t the giant vulva be a symbol of power too?” she asked.
It blew my mind and reaffirmed my decision to study anthropology and art history.
“Because really if Columbia students need an education in anything it’s love, not Constitutional law.”
— Neil FitzPatrick,
Spectrum (
Columbia Spectator)
“I have a suspicion—and hear me out, because this is a crazy rough one—that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
—
Tina Fey, Confessions of a Juggler, The New Yorker (February 14th, 2011)
She is incredible. One of the best personal articles I have ever read.
“One night I got caught by a security guard. He became angry at me because he said I could’ve ‘hurt myself’ up there. Nothing could be farther from the truth – it’s rooftops that keep me sane. They are my therapy and my friends, and I want to share them with the world. When I’m sitting next to a satellite dish high up on a hotel three blocks from the Empire State Building, or hanging off the edge of Columbia’s Butler library, or sitting on the uppermost flight of a fire escape with a pretty girl, I imagine the real world fading beneath my feet; I stand on my tiptoes and touch the sky. I breathe in, and all I hear is the gentle wind around me; the throbbing pulse of the streets is reduced to a soft hum far below. It is during these moments that I’m on top; I’m the boss of the world again, and nothing but a child at the same time. I am a rooftop superstar, and briefly, I am invincible.”
—
Wilfred Chan, Rooftop Superstar
One of my good friends wrote this. When I stand on rooftops in New York, I feel the closest I have ever felt to the heavens. Back home in California, I would go stargazing with my friends. Over here in New York, you can barely see the stars — but you can see the sparkling city lights underneath and around you when you’re standing on a rooftop.
And just like the night sky, the cityscape makes me feel alone yet connected, free yet imprisoned, and invincible yet mortal.
“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
—
- Bridgette Bardot (via makelifehappy)
I first read that as “Do you have to have a reason for being happy?”
In either case, I don’t think so.
“In France, we complain of the growing number of suicides; in America, suicide is rare but I am told that madness is more common than anywhere else.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Published in 1840)
“Have you ever stopped to think that the serious subject of woman’s progress and the frivolous subject of women’s clothes are very closely related?”
— Woman’s Home Companion, 1914
Probably the only time I will quote from Sex and the City
-
Carrie:
What does Gwyneth Paltrow need to see a therapist for?
-
Stanford:
She suffers from high self-esteem.
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
—
Albert Camus
(via booksquotesong)
Forget being normal. Expend that energy into creativity.
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