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Yoji Yamamoto underskirt @ The Met

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You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

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men will never understand the ribbon i wear around my neck so that my head doesn't fall off

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I want to follow him around like a cat and run in front of his feet and trip him

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First day of softness, sunshine, and warmth. My body relaxes. I’m deeply happy. I feel beautiful, soft and womanly. I feel, at moments, wise. My senses are more keenly awake than ever. I see everything with a painful lucidity.

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated April 25, 1928 featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. IV: 1927-1931

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Marc Jacobs in front of a portrait of Sofia Coppola by artist Elizabeth Peyton

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centaur for shari + dickinson’s handwriting

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the feminine urge to caress his face and tell him I adore him every thirty seconds

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mortifying ordeal, etc. 🕊

(claire schwartz / coco mellors)

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I came from a softer place.

— Alice Munro, from “A Wilderness Station,” Open Secrets: Stories (Vintage, 1995)

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