She’s too right at some older women having no wisdom at all 😔
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Galloon. 18th century.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1908
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/214044
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Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; “Hymn to Beauty”
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'Mermaids' by Konstantin Makovsky, 1879
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Alasdair Gray, from Poor Things
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Mother and child training longsword in Chile, at the Centro Esgrima Histórica
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Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Shipwreck with Sirens
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-Hylas and the Nymphs-
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Odalisque by Luis Ricardo Falero (1877)
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Sara Teasdale, “Sea Longing”
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“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
— Beau Taplin, Temples
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Marian Seldes, referring to Anne Sexton in "Anne Sexton: A Biography"
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Italian Silverplated Antique Sacred Hearts.
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'The Hours'. Edwin Austin Abbey. C. 1904.
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“lilacs in full bloom, sweet in the dark rain (…)”
— Marie Howe, from One Of The Last Days in “What The Living Do: Poems”
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Christina Rossetti, “Paradise: In A Dream”
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