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“No one shines more luridly on this faux-real stage than a woman. Whether it’s a modeling competition, a chance to compete for love, a weight-loss challenge, or a look into the lives of an aging magazine publisher’s harem, women are often the brightly polished trophies in the display case of reality television. The genre has developed a very successful formula for reducing women to an awkward series of stereotypes about low self-esteem, marital desperation, the inability to develop meaningful relationships with other women, and an obsession with an almost pornographic standard of beauty. When it comes to reality television, women, more often than not, work very hard at performing the part of woman, though their scripts are shamefully, shamefully warped.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Some lives we squander," he said. "And some we seize.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“I think part of the point of loving someone is being able to deal with their brokenness.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor