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oldhollywood:

“I was never a victim of the times I lived in. In fact, I was a success because of the times I lived in. My style of personality became the style. I was sort of the New Woman at a very early point.
I was fortunate to be born with the characteristics that were in the public vogue. I think that if you’re lucky enough to belong to an era that you live in, in a very strong way, as I did, then you’re lucky. So I’m lucky.”
-Katharine Hepburn (photo by Florence Vandamm, 1939)

oldhollywood:

“I was never a victim of the times I lived in. In fact, I was a success because of the times I lived in. My style of personality became the style. I was sort of the New Woman at a very early point.

I was fortunate to be born with the characteristics that were in the public vogue. I think that if you’re lucky enough to belong to an era that you live in, in a very strong way, as I did, then you’re lucky. So I’m lucky.”

-Katharine Hepburn (photo by Florence Vandamm, 1939)

18thcenturylove:

Agnes von Anhalt-Dessau by Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, 1763

18thcenturylove:

Agnes von Anhalt-Dessau by Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, 1763


Claude Buck, Self-Portrait, 1917. Smithsonian American Art Museum

Claude Buck, Self-Portrait, 1917. Smithsonian American Art Museum

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oldhollywood:

Tamara Dobson in Cleopatra Jones (1973, dir. Jack Starrett)
“She handles a car like a gun. She handles a gun like a man. And she handles a man like Cleopatra…”

oldhollywood:

Tamara Dobson in Cleopatra Jones (1973, dir. Jack Starrett)

“She handles a car like a gun. She handles a gun like a man. And she handles a man like Cleopatra…”