Tag: femininity

Desire is transformative, and transgressive: whether it’s an unpeeled onion or a noble lover, to want something, especially for women, can never be entirely benign.

Kristiana Willsey writes about folktales, fairy godmothers, childless queens and hunger in a piece for The Toast. 

‘Fairy tale heroines navigate worlds that darkly mirror our own, in which appetite is a slippery set of contradictions. Food, sex, and power are wrapped up in conflicting rules, like the beautiful and the ugly twins, the mother and the witch, the prince and the dragon, two edges of the same knife, cutting both ways.’

(via wine-loving-vagabond)

Girls love her, guys desire her. I love J.Law, you love J.Law, everybody loves J.Law. But, no, she’s not like us. She’s like a perfect character out of a book. … She’s an ideal that matches the times — a mix of feminism and passivity, of confidence and femininity. She knows what she wants, and what she wants is to hang out with the guys.

Anne Helen Petersen, Jennifer Lawrence and the History of Cool Girls

I had a feeling that Pandora’s box contained the mysteries of woman’s sensuality, so different from man’s and for which man’s language was inadequate.

Anaïs Nin, Diaries, February 1941