She's a Rainbow

Sharon Tate 1967

Jane Birkin with her daughters Kate Barry, 7, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2🌷🌷🌷

📸Leonard de Raemy

Jane Birkin with her daughters Kate Barry, 7, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2🌷🌷🌷

📸Leonard de Raemy

When I was growing up I had a hard time doing much of anything right. Dad was always harping, "Diane, how many times do I have to tell you, don't stand in front of the open refrigerator, you're wasting electricity." Or "Diane, use your noggin. That's what happens when you forget your lunchbox in the car. You don't get lunch." And every single night at the dinner table: "For God's sake, Diane, keep your mouth closed when you chew." There was always something interfering with getting things right: a question (the wrong kind), a hesitancy, and always, always the mangling of my sentences, the stammers, the ums, the you-knows, the oh-wells, the I-don't-knows. I was inept, inexact, and imprecise. I would never have believed you if you had told me that this ineptness would help me later on, but somehow it did and I made my way.