Emmy Rossum in People Magazine’s Most Beautiful 2013

she’s so pretty I wanna throw rose petals at her

sisterscamp:

lamorchemoveilsoleelaltrestelle:

Beauty has no age

Yohji Yamamoto, ‘Cutting Age’ Fashion Show in Berlin, 25th April 2013

yes

High School Girls in 1969

optimism, confidence, style

they all look like a bunch of wonderful badass ladies

moddomkapoddom:

Grandmother of three Ann McDonald, aged 60, lost her hair to alopecia and got fed up with wearing wigs and hats, so she got a £720 tattoo. She says she is very happy with it (jolly good!).

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 4 April

Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou, born 4 April 1928

12 Remarkable Maya Angelou Quotes

1. The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
2. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
3. Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
4. Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it.
5. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
6. There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
7. My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
8. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
9. Life loves the liver of it.
10. The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
11. When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
12. Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Angelou is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, and several books of poetry. Her career has spanned more than 50 years. She has received many awards and more than 30 honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, brought her international recognition and acclaim.

Source for Image

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

mumblingsage:

kawabiala:

vintagegal:

“La Belle Dame sans Merci” by Frank Dicksee, 1902

This picture is fascinating to me because of its portrayal of a powerful female character who doesn’t fall into any of the typical modern ‘Strong Female Character’ cliches.

The woman is the powerful, sexually assertive and threatening figure here, while the man is the more passive figure, visibly vulnerable to her. However, this portrayal of a woman as assertive and powerful doesn’t rely either on sexualizing her or on presenting that power in masculine ways.

This Belle Dame is traditionally feminine, drawn in flowing lines and curves. She is sexually assertive but not sexualized. The man is armed, masculine, stiff and drawn in straight, square lines - all stereotypically masculine, but his body language and expression make it obvious that he is the submissive and less powerful party here. His vulnerability is not expressed by de-masculinizing him, just as her power is not shown by making her any less feminine.

Some modern artists could stand to take lessons from Mr Dicksee.

The way her small hands grip that warhorse’s reins with such perfect strength and control never ceases to amaze me.

WOW THEY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH THIS AND IM GETTING EMOTIONAL IDK

dynamicafrica:

In this series  Namibian-born photographer Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s documents the daily lives and historical traditions of the Imazighen women of North Africa whose centuries old culture is slowly being forced to give in to the pressures of Arabisation and Westernization.

The photographs have been cataloged in this book.

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”

~ Jeremy Knowles

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.

cecaelias:

INSPIRATION - lady armor 

for the females that go to battle amidst leagues of men, who are not afraid to wear their sex with pride, and whose blows sting with a venomous fury provoked by years of repression. they are dangerous, and not to be undermined unless one wishes to hear their scream echo across the vast plains while their blood is used to paint the ground scarlet. 

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

Olimpia, White Sposa Italy

Photographer and digital artist from Almeria in Spain, Paco Peregrin , has released a series called “Olimpia” for the magazine White Sposa Italy

clementinescauldron:

I’m so jealous of her

sarahkurosawa:

Keiko Fukuda Shihan passed away yesterday at the age of 99. She was the last surviving student of the founder of judo, Jigoro Kano, and the highest ranking female judoka in history. She was promoted to 10th dan (degree) black belt just last year, a rank that at the time was held only by 3 other people, all men living in Japan. Fukuda Shihan left her homeland and refused marriage to achieve her dreams of training in judo, constantly battling gender discrimination which kept her from being promoted as quickly as men less skilled than her. “As far as I know, no one has lived their life completely for judo as I have.”