#omen

The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially. ↗

— Elizabeth Ironside

#women #death

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#bus #chip #days #just #like

Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death. Through saying “yes” and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#aloneness #awareness #darkness #death #female

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#forever #moment #now #death

She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers of Pakistan had refused to allow the winning party in Bangladesh—then East Pakistan—to form a government, her father had put down his textbooks, left the university, and joined the fight. Hundreds of thousands, millions of deaths later, Bangladesh had its independence. His stories had made a deep impact on on Asma as a child. She had resolved to be as brave, only to learn that as a woman she wasn't expected to be. ↗

— Amy Waldman

#women #death

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#admire #clothes #clothing #delight #delightful

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bring #chanel #designer #face #fashion

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothes #clothing #designer #fashion #girl

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothing #designer #dress #fashion #karl-lagerfeld