“Sometimes your parents aren’t really the people who nurture you. You have other role models in your life that become your mother and your father. It’s unusual when the family you’re born into is actually the people that feel like your family.”
Madonna
Marilyn Monroe in 1960, photographed by Eve Arnold, who died yesterday aged 99.
Snow at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion
Girls gathered outside St Nicholas’s Church School, Brighton, early 1900s.
Amy Winehouse, ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’
“I never wanted you to be my man
Just need your company
Don’t want to get dependent on your time
Then lose the way you love me
Like smoke, I hung around in the unbalanced…”
Michelle Williams, ‘My Week With Marilyn’
“An interviewer once said to me, ‘You play all these victims but they’re strong.’ Hello? Every woman alive on the planet right now could be described like that. Every woman alive. Every woman is fragile and strong.”
“For me,the childhood element was almost everything. Heathcliff wants to return to Cathy, but also to that place, to childhood, when he had some glimpses of happiness.”
Andrea Arnold, director, Wuthering Heights
Photo by Agatha A Nitecka
For some reason, I feel like I never left high school, because I still feel that if you don’t fit in, you’re going to get your ass kicked. That hasn’t really changed for me. I’ve always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
Madonna talks to Naomi Wolf about women, power and W.E. in ‘Harper’s Bazaar’
