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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
“What we need instead is to feel so at home and comfortable in our bodies that taking care of them feels natural and automatic. You don’t take care of things you hate.”
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness
“There is only one’s own mournful horror, one’s worthless moral vanity—which can do nothing. The bad news of the world, like most bad news, has no place to go. You tack it to the bulletin board part of your heart. You say look, you say see. That is all.”
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
“Consider the bind this puts women in. You live in a culture that demands that you focus on your own appearance and promises others will do the same. But this evidence suggests that the more people think about your appearance, the less likely they will be to view you as competent.”
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness
“In a different lab study, researchers found that compared to men assigned to play Pac-Man or The Sims, those who spent twenty-five minutes playing a sexualized video game called Leisure Suit Larry later rated sexual harassment of women as more acceptable.18 Men in the Leisure Suit condition were also quicker to identify words like slut, whore, and bitch in a word-identification task, suggesting that the objectifying imagery in the game primed them to think of women in these ways.”
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness
“For I am by no means confining you to fiction. If you would please me--and there are thousands like me--you would write books of travel and adventure, and research and scholarship, and history and biography, and criticism and philosophy and science. By so doing you will certainly profit the art of fiction. For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
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