“as a teenager, i didn't want to be me; i wanted to be many different people. maybe i realised that they all lived inside me and that if i managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me”
“The architect had abandoned his country but not his lifelong political principles: In a show of solidarity, Niemeyer worked on the project for free. But his Marxist-Leninist sympathies were not limitless. “On the politics, I’m with you, but your architecture is awful.””
“I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves,” he wrote in his memoirs. “The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman.”
people mistake introversion and/or shyness for rudeness way too often. excuse me if i’m not a contagious happiness ball that likes speaking to everyone
fine cus “her (physical and mental) health is good”.
It’s empowering for her to come out and write how she felt in that moment. Being insecure can and should be more normalised.
This IS an important message and many women and young girls can find comfort in reading this.
“i couldn't stop looking at her, didn't want to blink. (…) the sight of her made me high. all that and then there was her voice. a voice that drove out bad spirits. it was like she'd come down from another planet”
(to everyone who’s taking this out of context unintentionally or intentionally) This isn’t about a model looking beautiful and conforming society’s beauty and body norms. What causes impact is that Adriana Lima as a model is assuming she doesn’t look like she used to and that’s