i am no miss

Jude Law and Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina (2012)

I may be a woman, Sir William, but if I choose I have the heart of a man! I am my father’s daughter. I am not afraid of anything.

Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what you’re telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country is bored! There’s no life in it, or color, or fun!  So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my Jew, and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun!

charade + favorite scenes

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word ‘dramatic’ - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

“ Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”

If I’m King, where’s my power? Can I form a government? Can I levy a tax, declare a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority. Why? Because the nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can’t speak.

Cate Blanchett as Sheba Hart in Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

ELIZABETH + ROBERT DANCING 1/?

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial —you’d think all women do is clean and bleed.

There’s a hole in my lawn and evidently Welly just discovered it’s perfectly dog shaped

The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I’ve always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all. - Jennifer Aniston

Besides, people like me, well… let’s just say I’m used to this by now.