sartbismus:

i feel like the urge to go out into the woods and exist freely away from the male gaze and be in our natural forms without fear is a universal female experience

she-scriptures:

Have you ever truly idolized a woman? Nothing can be obscene in such love, and all which occurs in between it becomes a sacrament.

—Bitter Moon, dir. Roman Polanski (1992)

fungusamongusblog:

cdnsongbirdme:

“Something tender, secret, and painful draws out the intimacy which keeps vigil in us, extending its glimmer into that animal darkness.”

— Georges Bataille, qtd. in Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, by Darcey Steinke (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)

macrolit:

“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

—

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French author

gay-otlc:

Smoking cigarettes on the roof… you look so pretty and I love this view…