Josephine

“Vultures are difficult to charm unless you’re off somewhere rotting in the noonday sun. Casually rotting…a glib cadaver.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“As a woman, my body is scrutinized, policed, and treated as a public commodity. As a fat woman, my body is also lampooned, openly reviled, and associated with moral and intellectual failure. My body limits my job prospects, access to medical care and fair trials, and – the one thing Hollywood movies and Internet trolls most agree on – my ability to be loved. So the subtext, when a thin person asks a fat person, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ is, ‘You must be some sort of alien because if I looked like you, I would definitely throw myself into the sea.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“The idea that we can somehow escape affecting each other is deeply conservative. Barbarous, even.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman