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I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers.
“It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves. I can tell that story from both sides.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“No amount of advice or lectures or trying to chain somebody down ever stopped anyone who didn’t want to stop in the first place.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“And the subtext of that photo—the way her chest is neither aimed at Billy nor at the viewer, the way her stance is confident but not suggestive—the subtext isn’t that Daisy is trying to please you or the man she’s with. The subtext isn’t “My body is for you.” Which is what so many nude photos are, what so many images of naked women are used for. The subtext—for her body, in that image—it’s self-possession. The subtext is “I do what I want.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“As a young woman, I hated receiving compliments on my appearance, whether they came from my girlfriends or the men and boys I was interested in.”
― My Body
― My Body
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