“Beauty is not good capital. I compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“But if I believe that I can become beautiful, I become an economic subject. My desire becomes a marker.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“I could never step lightly enough or run fast enough to get away from the cracking, so I made everything around me so loud that it drowned out the sound.”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“I hate small talk. It is small. Small is for teacups and occasionally for tiny houses. Too much small talk is how a country is given to sociopaths who thrive on shallow chatter to distract their emotional sleight of hand. Talk should be meaningful or kept to a minimum.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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