Being A Woman Is Like…yeah Lol You Can Pursue Self-fulfillment And Happiness On The Side But Don’t

“Ever since I could remember, I had feared being found wanting. If I did the work I wanted to do, it was certain not to measure up; if I pursued the people I wanted to know, I was bound to be rejected; if I made myself as attractive as I could, I would still be ordinary looking. Around such damages to the ego a shrinking psyche had formed: I applied myself to my work, but only grudgingly; I’d make one move toward people I liked, but never two; I wore makeup but dressed badly. To do any or all of these things well would have been to engage heedlessly with life — love it more than I loved my fears — and this I could not do. What I could do, apparently, was daydream the years away: to go on yearning for “things” to be different so that I would be different.”

— Vivian Gornick, The Cost of Daydreaming - NYTimes.com (via arabellesicardi)

Not to be furiously antimodern but like. Existence has meaning

Vintage Heart Shaped Woven Wicker Rattan Basket

Virginia Woolf photographed by Gisèle Freund, 1939 / portrait of Virginia Woolf by Vanessa Bell, 1934

Night at the museum, Nicolas Krief

catch me gardening topless at 5am telling my baby tomato plant about my bad dream

From Something That May Shock And Discredit You, Daniel Lavery

Dreamy guestroom in interior designer Howard Slatkin’s Fifth Avenue apartment [x]

Il bagno nel bosco (The bathroom in the woods) by Augusto Corelli (Italian painter, 1853-1918)