“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
| Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides It is so strange to me that Jeffery Eugenides would write this. The beautiful, elegant Audrey is so engaging I think. Does this mean I can now breathe out? I've been trying to hold my stomach in since 1982. Women are obviously not on the same page as men when it comes to what is admirable in a woman physically. The more statuesque proportions of stereotypical pin up girls are not what Audrey is best known for so perhaps that is why men, allegedly, never think about her. Luckily, for most of us with some sort of hang up about our appearance, it's not all about the superficial (in real life anyway, fantasy life is another thing). Men are probably a lot less critical of women than women are of themselves. Back to Audrey, I love this image and quote which is attributed to her.  But even more, I like this one from Catherine Deneuve.  In my daydreams though, it's all about Sean Connery as Bond, James Bond.  |
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