PATRICIA A. FORTUNATO
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT & SOCIAL EDITOR, CULTURE WRITER, ACTIVIST
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“I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you. I think it is much more interesting in the course of the storytelling to discover the sex, even though the woman may look like a school teacher. Anything could happen to you with a woman like that in a taxi.”
—Alfred Hitchcock on his idea of a heroine, to Jeremy Kagan
*Maurice Pialat’s La Cinémathèque française expo inspired the above recut.
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Romance and the pleasure of simply living have an all-pervading influence on the values in Southern Italy. I cherish my roots there and hope I bring a bit of that back to New York with each visit.
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My mother wanted to name me Sirena but my father thought it was too risqué.
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This is a Sicilian dessert known as granita siciliana. Seen: strawberry and chocolate granita sandwiched between a buttery brioche. For breakfast, we eat brioche con gelato. I have no idea how this is true, but it appears evident throughout Southern Italy.
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Welcome to the most romantic place on Earth, where declarations of love as art are as frequent as kisses and wine.
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The majority of graffiti I see in New York consists of “F you.” In Italy, it’s “Ti amo.”
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La mamma è sempre la mamma
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Never feeling at home is lonely, no matter how many people surround you. But for this I am grateful. Too often, people find themselves stuck in one place; a mental thing that becomes physical after a period of time. I think mental mobility is a good thing. You could say this proves The Eurasian Face correct, or that it is simply possessing an extremely adaptable attribute.
A DESERTED BEACH AT NIGHT IS A TRANQUILIZER. The lack of romanticism in my life in Japan is replaced with an intense spirituality, never in the depths of Tokyo but on the outskirts, in the Chiba Prefecture.
tran·quil·iz·er noun -ˌlī-zər\
1 : one that tranquilizes
2 : a drug used to reduce mental disturbance (as anxiety and tension)spir·i·tu·al·i·ty noun \ˌspir-i-chə-ˈwa-lə-tē\
1 : something that in ecclesiastical law belongs to the church or to a cleric as such
2 : clergy
3 : sensitivity or attachment to religious values
4 : the quality or state of being spiritual*Source: Merriam-Webster
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A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.
—Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
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Una lettrice piccola, ma accanita
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Oggi sopralluogo per la festa di Vogue bambini a giugno. Visitare ville non è niente male
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Dedichiamo i mughetti (portano fortuna) a tutti i bimbi nati in questi giorni
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The original Gucci store on Via dei Condotti
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One of the most profound celebrations on Earth is approaching. I am not a mother, but I know how powerful the bond is between mother and child, from both my own relationship and watching the moms in my family nurture their children. Over the years, my mother has asked my siblings and I to refrain from gifts; rather, she would like us to spend time with her and donate to a charitable maternal organization. And why should the commercial focus of the holiday be on materialism? Why should it only be focused on our own moms? Why shouldn’t it be — as Nicholas Kristof eloquently wrote three years ago — not Mother’s Day but “Mothers’ Day — an occasion to try to help other mothers around the globe as well”?
Next week, my mother and I will be attending Mom + Social: A Global Movement of Mothers. The event will tackle the six topics most discussed during the Global Mom Relay: supporting physical and emotional maternal health; empowering and inspiring girls; addressing urgent issues that endanger women globally; ensuring maternal and newborn medical care; building strong communities; and uniting mothers for change. With a focus on motherhood and the role of social media, technology, and philanthropy in improving the health of mothers and children everywhere, the gathering will be an opportunity to share ideas(!), raise awareness, and inspire global action.
You can register to attend here, or virtually participate in the dialogue by tuning in to the speeches, discussion, and panels via live stream and social media (#momplussocial).
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