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Shot by Inez & Vinoodh for Visionarie #13

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Lara Jade is seriously such an insanely talented photographer

Anya Taylor-Joy, photographed by Lara Jade for Rollacoaster, Spring/Summer 2018.

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Thomas Francis Dicksee - WAITING

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As a kid i would imagine my future self studying in domed buildings, surrounded by oceans of books and inked words.

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Zoë Kravitz photographed by Nagi Sakai for ELLE France, September 2018.

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“I adore fairy stories. And I still have the wistful spirit of a child that listens wide-eyed to the marvellous tales told over and over during long winter evenings.”

— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,” 

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it’s not just actresses moaning for more money — it’s the direct impact on our communities, and that extends to all things with diversity and women. it’s got to be fixed. i’ve got to get more involved.

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Three nails photography never ceases to amaze

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Teresa Helbig Otoño-Invierno 2016/2017

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Coach 1941 by Stuart Vevers S/S 2019 (Details) 

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I think I feel most like a princess when I’m sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you’re full of life.

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— Le Fabuleux Destin D’Amélie Poulain.

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ig: pepamack

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Tracy Lee Hayes

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Omg gimme this outfit

awake mode

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I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?

Wool was a huge industry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land. 

And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand. 

This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade. 

So what did they do?

They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required. 

So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?

So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter. 

But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them. 

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