The Young Victoria: Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will.
Prince Albert: Do you?
Victoria: Constantly. I see them leaning in and moving me around the board.
Albert: The Duchess and Sir John?
Victoria: Not just them. Uncle Leopold. The king. I’m sure half the politicians are ready to seize hold of my skirts and drag me from square to square.
Albert: Then you had better master the rules of the game until you play it better than they can.
Victoria: You don’t recommend I find a husband to play it for me?
Albert: I should find one to play it with you, not for you.
Mad Men
- Don Draper: Let me ask you something. What do Women want?
- Roger Sterling: Who cares?
(via ngx)
“She wanted me to be beautiful so I could find a man. There’s nothing wrong with that. But then what? Just sit and smoke and let it go ‘til you’re in a box?”
Betty Draper
Heavenly Creatures- Official Trailer
“That’s right: this woman’s body was so distracting to male students that it required intervention by school officials or campus discipline would break down. And the intervention wasn’t to tell men to grow up and stop ogling their female classmates, of course, but to ask her to make herself less visible.” (via Sociological Images)
Banksy
Jesus H. Christ, Nancy Drew! →
If you really want to get a look at societal stances toward independent women in the 20th century, go read the wiki page for Nancy Drew.
An Education: Official Trailer
Oooh! Victorian burn!
(source: The Atchison Globe, January 10, 1882.)
