Fools Who Dream
'However many terrible, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love.'
We think that we live in a post-feminist society, and we do not. We’re told we don’t need feminism anymore, that we have the vote, that like, we’re all good. And I think, actually, that’s incredibly disconcerting because then, when young women move into the world and they realize, Oh, why am I not being paid the same, why am I being treated differently? And they start to blame themselves because they don’t understand that they’re part of a historic pattern, they’re part of a much larger system which is kind of working a little bit against them.
Happy 27th Birthday Emma Watson! (April 15, 1990)
“There were lots of stories at Hailsham. I don’t think many of them turned out to be true.”
Never Let Me Go (2010) dir. Mark Romanek
From Caitlin Moran, in a wonderful summation of what we all can learn from David Bowie.
"There is no academy where you can learn to be yourself; there is no line manager slowly urging you toward the correct answer. You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone."
(via meditationsinwonderland)
