Storytelling. Elizabeth Taylor.

 Elizabeth Taylor, in her older years seated, sipping a drink in a quiet moment in the public eye in a private setting. She was elegant a lady! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9/19/18

Elizabeth Taylor elegant, refined.

Elizabeth Taylor in 1958. She would be 26 years old in this moment. The 1960's were near, and ripe in the air was change never to be experienced again. This period would change the world, introducing the elements that shape this century for a generation less developed in spheres other than the intellect. Consistent to the paths high purpose takes Beauty found a deep place within Elizabeth Taylor, that gripped the strength of an era that valued elegance, daring, and appreciated the mystique a woman can hold to cherish, and found challenges to old forms binding women to Victorian principles; an endeavor a nation should take, and an individual should discover.

That is a long sentence and today is a long way from the very depth of the times Elizabeth Taylor left a world in awe. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/19/18  

Elizabeth Taylor in a role. 

Elizabeth Taylor with weight and years on her reached that special place where women are too irresistible to men's heart and loins. Mature men understand. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/19/18

Elizabeths

Elizabeth Montgomery, actress in the 1970's! 

Elizabeth Taylor's pearl white skin and peculiar eyes tinted not by light, or sun but by something in between...

Elizabeth Hurley in a barn.

Elizabeth Keene, fashion blogger windswept in white (June 2014)

Elizabeth Banks, actress 

Elizabeth Perkins was born on November 18, 1960,

in the borough of Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont.

Speaking of which...

High intelligence in women's eyes are razor sharp judgments of character cutting through all the illusions a deceptive man can try to employ. It is humorous how crude, ignorant men miss this point. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [June 07, 2017]

Intelligent eyes are attractive. They lead and follow.

"The point is, young man, do you lead or follow?"

Elizabeth Taylor's eyes.

Jamaican proverb: "Mi tro mi corn, but mi no call no fowl!"

eyes See you.

Sophia Loren 2

We have all known women whose eyes were composed, whose thoughts seemed to come solely through her gaze, and who judged, condemned, praised and exalted men by the look in their eyes!

These women soundlessly shape our lives. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/17/17













Beautés Classiques 

Elizabeth Taylor's eyes.

To Be Relevant.

Elizabeth Taylor, 1953.

María Félix, on set, was a famous Mexican actress mid-20th century.

When Reconstruction ended, southern legislators enacted laws segregating public spaces. "Jim Crow" laws, as they were known, enforced racial discrimination and a tradition of legal and extralegal violence that terrorized African-Americans throughout the South. This photograph from November 16, 1961, shows a “White only” laundromat in Tallahassee. by Peter U. Cole, photographer

Whites Only laundromat in Tallahassee, Tennessee. Nov. 16, 1961. Nigger please! is what it meant.

Alfre Woodard has been nominated once for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, 17 times for an Emmy Award (winning 4), and has also won a Golden Globe & 3 SAG Awards. She gave a moving performance as a struggling Black mother in the innovative television series, Hill Street Blues, in the early 1980's, that moved the entire country. From there she was catapulted to better roles, and stardom. She has been my Hollywood heartthrob ever since. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Reclaim our story

Not even one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor, could capture to represent the deep allure and the powerful beauty of Egyptian women before the mixing of the white tribes near the end of the last of Egypt's 3,000 year reign. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.17.13

DIAMONDS

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"I diamanti sono i migliori amici delle donne", diceva Marilyn Monroe... "Le grandi donne hanno bisogno di grandi diamanti", affermava invece Elizabeth Taylor... ecco, forse non sapevano che "dai diamanti non nasce niente, dal letame nascono i fior" - Fabrizio de Andrè

from Telma Regina Garcia's gallery

 "Diamonds are a girl's best friend," said Marilyn Monroe... Great women need big diamonds." Elizabeth Taylor said instead, "... here perhaps they did not know that the diamond is not born. The flowers arise from manure born flowers." 

Elizabeth Taylor

"This translation I assume is Italian. Is this a close approximation in English, Telma?"

"Yes. This may sound better."

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend, said Marilyn Monroe ...Great women need big diamonds, Elizabeth Taylor said instead ... here, perhaps they did not know that the diamond is not born at all, the flowers arise from manure."

Or perhaps, "Only Diamonds are a girl's best friend, "said Marilyn Monroe ..." Great women need big diamonds, "said Elizabeth Taylor instead ... well, maybe they did not know that" nothing comes from diamonds from manure born flower.

elegant Black beauty in red

Diamonds mean something totally different to an African miner, his family and his village.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Intelligence to beauty

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor, as Cleopatra

ELIZABETH TAYLOR (1932 – 2011)

“Elizabeth Taylor, as Queen Cleopatra, in 1963, glorified an elitist idea Anglo-Americans needed to feel superior to the people they conquered, colonized, and subjugated to the worse of atrocities that began to swell to the surface when they destroyed the great library of Alexandria. From that act of terror the fuel to supplant themselves as the author and finisher of the knowledge Europeans received from the Black skinned Egyptians, and Nubians led up to, and was heralded within one of the greatest beauties, and talents of the 20th century. Her roles, and the jewelry she wore flaunted that history in the face of suppressed Africans in Africa, and throughout the Diaspora.


Elizabeth Taylor is all of the things she lived, and embodied; even the Goddess! She lived deeply, and America before cable TV, cell phones, the Internet was viewed and listened to differently, and I dare say, with deeper insight than today's women celebrities, many of whom, do not have the depth introspective living develops within a woman. Ms. Taylor's escapades ran parallel to my life too, and I, like every other person who read the papers, passed judgment, made comments, gawked in astonishment as her life crumbled, or rose to extraordinary heights, or raised the ire of our Puritan ethics, am affected by her death. Elizabeth Taylor’s life was a deep life in service to many, and magical to all.”

©Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Elizabeth Taylor & Audrey Hepburn dancing in the 1960's

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

"Elizabeth Taylor, the actress, but mostly Elizabeth Taylor, the woman is an ideal, an American ideal. The ideal of America was forged during and after the nefarious deeds that tainted people around the globe, and their various cultures. Once the supremacy of the idea, and the fact of white America, and Americans became a hammer above the heads of subjugated nations it became a gospel that fear enforced, and the images that came from this ideology became the additional lure of Elizabeth Taylor, the ideal. She was elegant, and beautiful in a magical, and unapproachable way. Women in other cultures exposed to the American culture learned to despise, and re-define themselves, and their men learned to gauge beauty by the Hollywood standards penned, and directed from those studios. At the top of the heap of idols, and inaccessible Goddesses reined Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, and on and on into the present we can go to find their inheritors. They were a small elite group, but they shaped the images in millions and millions of minds into what they were not: white."

©Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Elizabeth Taylors' tiaras were world famous.

http://theweddingtiara.com/archives/elizabeth-taylors-wedding-tiara