Tina

“Sometimes I feel like I’m a pair of eyes and ears, and I’m just trying to stay safe and make sense of what’s happening. I don’t want pain. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to see other people around me die. But I don’t have anything left inside me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it’s to know what’s possible to want.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“In Steinberg’s world, numbers celebrate their independence, words map out the future, letters stage parades, and pedestrians are dogged by question marks.”
― Joel Smith, Steinberg at the New Yorker

“It goes right back to judging women with large breasts as bimbos and small breasts as brains; women who are believed versus women who are ridiculed. Our bodies are the common denominator in the ways we are held back.”
― Leslie Lehr, A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me ... and You