One Of The Most Important Themes In Female Gothic Fiction Is The Freedom Granted To Women, As Moers States

the thing about being an adult is every time you turn around some shit gotta be “renewed”. tags. licenses. passports. like i’m the same bitch doing the same shit

Nina Coomes, On Eve's Temptation and the Monsters We Make of Hungry Women / Daisies (1966), dir. Věra Chytilová

“You have to remember that I’ve been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you’ve been lonely long enough you don’t realize you’re cold, but you are … I don’t know, maybe at the center of me there’s some ice that never will melt, maybe it’s just been there too long. But you mustn’t worry. You didn’t put it there.”

— Larry McMurtry, from the novel The Last Picture Show (Dial Press, 1966)

John Constable, View of a Copse, c.1809

‘Bouquet with Peonies’ (circa 1640–86) by Jean Vauquer (1621–1686). Etching.

Image and text courtesy MFA Boston.