fromlaughter | silvestria | cyrillah:
How young she is and so vulnerable. It’s that hint of fear and shame.
She always had that. She was never really the cold and careful Lady Mary Crawley, was she?
I was reading today in The Madwoman in the Attic (that seminal volume of feminist criticism) about the subterfuges, barriers, manipulations that women over the ages would create about themselves in order to survive the patriarchy. Rebellious, thinking, feeling women who stifle themselves, who hide themselves away, who create fictions and delusions of and about themselves in order to avoid facing head on the truth of their powerlessness.
Mary darling, you are sublime and complicated and I just have no words.
(Source: anteeosome)
