Vita Byrd

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“It sometimes feels as if we have temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“As with all optimization experiences and products, athleisure is reliably comfortable and supportive in a world that is not.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror