“I don’t know how the cake is made, but I want it!” - Lana Turner Marriage Is A Private Affair (1944)
A Room Of Their Own by Madeleine Morlet
Autumn bliss in the Aosta Valley, Italy.
May Sarton, The Journals of May Sarton Volume One
Audrey Hepburn in Hotel Raphael, Paris, France, 1956.
Colette (2018)
Vivien Leigh in WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Becoming Jane (2007)
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Lauren Bacall (with her mother) photographed by Nina Leen at the Gotham Hotel , New York, 1945