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“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spectacles from a young age, when women focus on their own erotic desires and satisfaction, they are seen as monsters, and even more so when they get rich doing it.”
― catherine mccormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

“Guided groups are brought before her to revere the extraordinary achievements of the master artist, or to be teased by the play of gazes in the image - that Venus sees us seeing her - and, most of all, to be educated, enlightened and inspired by a picture of a woman with no clothes on.”
― Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking