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“When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
“A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves.”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
“No matter the content, the message is clear: we are here for their enjoyment and little else. We have to walk through the rest of our day knowing that our discomfort gave someone a hard-on.”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn’t mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves.”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
“Those who commit acts of violence are surely responsible for them; they are not dupes or mechanisms of an impersonal social force, but agents with responsibility. On the other hand, these individuals are formed, and we would be making a mistake if we reduced their actions to purely self-generated acts of will or symptoms of individual pathology of 'evil'.”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
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