She’s so small yet strongest in the pair

- Mahmoud Darwish

Pieces of a Woman (2020) dir. Kornél Mundruczó

Text ID: ELEKTRA: By dread things I am compelled. I know that. / I know what I am.

Un prophète (2009), dir. Jacques Audiard

sophocles’ electra (trans hdf kitto)

Mack the Knife - Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Text ID: ELEKTRA: I ask this one thing: / let me go mad in my own way.

rage and tenderness existing simultaneously in the same body

simmer - hayley williams / the bell jar - sylvia plath / cop car - mitski / judith slaying holofernes - artemisia gentileschi / fast as you can - fiona apple / animal- aurora / salome - jean benner / tonight i am someone else - chelsea hodson / wishbone - richard siken / ride - lana del rey

The Hunger (1983)

— Yoshihara Sachiko, from Candle; Women Poets of Japan (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth)

﹙ Text ID: CHORUS LEADER: You would become the wretchedest of women. MEDEA: Then let it be. ﹚

Santiago Cabrera in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)

Katherine Mansfield, from Journal of Katherine Mansfield | Art by Nickie Zimov