Quote of the Day for 2016-06-25

"Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go? / I am gone and never come back to you. / I never return."

— Sappho (circa 630-570 BCE) Fragment

The Vestal Virgin Tuccia by Giovanni Battista Moroni (circa 1555)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-18

"The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit."

— George Santayana (1863-1952) "Normal Madness," Dialogues in Limbo

The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo (1939). It was painted the same year she divorced Diego Rivera.