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“Identify your needs and learn how to meet them”; (3) “reclaim your body, and its desires, from all who would objectify and demean it, whether it’s the fashion industry, pornographers, or even the medical establishment. Recognize the hatred of the female body that pervades contemporary culture, and oppose it”; and (4) “move about freely and fearlessly. Take back the streets. Take back the night and the day.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

“You can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

“(1) “find your voice; tell your story, make yourself heard”; (2) “know who you are. Establish your authentic identity or selfhood.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol