Patty E

“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside[...]. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception