“Rather than pass in public as human, she opts to simply disappear.”
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
“Disappointment is a spotlight that is shining on a part of you that you have not let go yet.”
― The Untethered Soul at Work: Teachings to Transform Your Work Life
― The Untethered Soul at Work: Teachings to Transform Your Work Life
“Although most people might want it, fame has the lowest odds of success, paired with the highest level of shame for those who fail. If someone changes after years as a banker, or an insurance salesman, we applaud them. But if you switch careers after working in entertainment? You're a failure. I guess the assumption is if anyone could be famous, they would. So, if you stop pursuing it, it must because you couldn't, and not because you just wanted to do something else.”
― You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
― You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
“They tend to be skinny; perhaps their performance of appetite suggests comfort with deprivation. Maybe they dupe men into thinking that they, like air plants, don't need nourishment to survive.”
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“The unanswered questions because they were unasked. A kind of lethargy had settled on me at the Conservatory, turned into impotence by every additional place that relegated me an outsider. I had decided that everyone else knew best. Now I have lost not only my culture but my family as well.”
― Natural Beauty
― Natural Beauty
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