Get It, Girls
"The girl and the woman, in their new, individual unfolding, will only in passing be imitators of male behavior and misbehavior and repeaters of male professions. After the uncertainty of such transitions, it will become obvious that women were going through the abundance and variation of those (often ridiculous) disguises just so that they could purify their own essential nature and wash out the deforming influences of the other sex. Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of any bodily fruit and who, arrogant and hasty, undervalues what he thinks he loves. This humanity of woman, carried in her womb through all her suffering and humiliation, will come to light when she has stripped off the conventions of mere femaleness in the transformations of her outward status, and those men who do not yet feel it approaching will be astonished by it. Someday (and even now, especially in the countries of northern Europe, trustworthy signs are already speaking and shining), someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being." Rilke

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"With both Lena [Dunham] and Kristin [Wiig] … you do get the sense that they approach all of the work differently than men. The things that they’re writing about are different, but it’s hard to say what it is … because everyone’s looking for love, everyone’s looking to be happy, everyone wants to be grounded. There are specific neuroses to their projects that are not exactly how men are. There’s more of a vulnerability to how they go about their lives. … [T]hey’re all willing to not worry about being liked. They will expose themselves and show all of their pain and frustrations and desires, and we never have a moment where they think, ‘I’ll look weird doing that,’ or ‘That makes me look bad.’ They just want to expose the truth, which is what I always want. And being around them has made me want to do that more in my work."

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Judd Apatow on the different working attitudes of men and women (via nprfreshair)

Amen! Love this, Judd.

I saw Ingrid do this live last night. It was obviously beautiful. And I cried.

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I’m not sure all these people understand.
It’s not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water.
They cannot see me naked.
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday.

My girl.

"When you become the deepest valley of receptivity, then the highest peaks of consciousness can be given to you. Only a valley can receive a peak. A disciple should be absolutely feminine, receptive, like a womb."

— Osho 

(Source: lazyyogi, via fuckyeahyoga)

Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1. From BuzzFeed’s list of the 45 Most Powerful photos of 2011 here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011 Check out the gender in the room. You can see that they all feel what’s going on, but Hillary’s feelings are either deeper or more openly expressed. 

Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1.

From BuzzFeed’s list of the 45 Most Powerful photos of 2011 here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011

Check out the gender in the room. You can see that they all feel what’s going on, but Hillary’s feelings are either deeper or more openly expressed. 

Joan Didion and her new book about her struggle as a mother, Blue Nights

On Joan Didion as “soothsayer”:

By virtue of her age—just ahead of the baby-boomers, young enough to recognize them and old enough to see them clearly—Didion has made a career as a canary in the American coal mine. In the sixties, she observed, from the vital center, the dangers of the counterculture, and long before Woodstock. Beginning in the nineties, she anticipated the shallow polarization that now dominates American politics. In the aughts, just in advance of aging contemporaries like Joyce Carol Oates, she anatomized the pain of widowhood. And, in Blue Nights, she warns against the false comforts of helicopter parenting and industrial medicine.

Girls At War. Slideshow and article about Israeli women fighting in the wars in Israel. You can see the intensity of this place and this life in the pictures, and still also the softness of a woman in their bright and flowing clothing, wild hair, and polished nails.  Moriya, who is 19, was wearing blue balloon pants, a turquoise-and-silver nose ring, and a silver Star of David around her neck emblazoned with Meir Kahane’s famous emblem—a thumb rising out of a tight fist. Roni is 14. Her nail polish was blue, and she was wearing a Snoopy T-shirt and a wooden pendant etched with the Hebrew words: “Kahane was right.” They’re fighters, these girls, each in their different way.

Girls At War. Slideshow and article about Israeli women fighting in the wars in Israel. You can see the intensity of this place and this life in the pictures, and still also the softness of a woman in their bright and flowing clothing, wild hair, and polished nails. 

Moriya, who is 19, was wearing blue balloon pants, a turquoise-and-silver nose ring, and a silver Star of David around her neck emblazoned with Meir Kahane’s famous emblem—a thumb rising out of a tight fist. Roni is 14. Her nail polish was blue, and she was wearing a Snoopy T-shirt and a wooden pendant etched with the Hebrew words: “Kahane was right.” They’re fighters, these girls, each in their different way.

Awesome slide show of Annie Liebovitz’s Vogue shoot of Michelle Williams, based on her next role as Marilyn Monroe. I especially love the first shot. She looks so comfortable. “She was so honest and present that you had no choice but to find that level of honesty in yourself,” says Dougray Scott, who stars as Monroe’s husband, Arthur Miller.

Awesome slide show of Annie Liebovitz’s Vogue shoot of Michelle Williams, based on her next role as Marilyn Monroe. I especially love the first shot. She looks so comfortable.

“She was so honest and present that you had no choice but to find that level of honesty in yourself,” says Dougray Scott, who stars as Monroe’s husband, Arthur Miller.