Amanda

“Eventually, Jonathan will run out of “unseen” crusty Polaroids, but I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“[...] I was sad for him that he had had a child at all if it meant his happiness was tied to mine always. I was sad I wasn't able to learn to be happier, more regular and peaceful, because it meant he would never have that peace for himself, which he of all people deserved and had waited for.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“I shut my eyes tight. I felt a sudden urge to disappear. I imagined being able to breathe in so deeply that my body would dissolve into the air I’d sucked in, and then I'd no longer be in my body, in my physical self, in this car with S, or anywhere at all. "You are the problem," I thought to myself. "Something is wrong with you. And if you were taken out of the equation, everything would be just fine.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body