Anna

“I want to be the one in control of my body, even if that means denying it.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over. Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was—how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“Ideally, Martha, you want to figure out the reason why you keep burning your own house down.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

“It didn’t occur to me that what I wanted from S was the same thing that my mother craved from me: to have someone live in her pain with her.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body