Alexis Dalton

“My body is a gift from my parents.
The temple of my soul, my mind, my heart.
My body is pride
a portrait of my land,
a love song.
My body is not yours to judge.
It is not yours to decide.
Not yours to criticize.
It's mine, mine alone, and no one else's.”
― Mayra Cuevas, Does My Body Offend You?

“Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?”
― Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

“Until women are allowed to make mediocre works of art while still succeeding in the way that many white men get to do this every single day, we will not have the power to take our creative freedoms back. We will be limited by impossible expectations reserved for the few. As long as we are put and put ourselves on a patriarchal pedestal, too high to succeed and doomed to fail, then surely we will be set up to do exactly that, every time.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

“I want to hurl the question at Dr. Hardaway. At Doris the secretary. At Nurse Hopkins. And at every other woman who’s ever made me feel like there’s something wrong with me because of the shape of my body. They should know better. “It’s perfect,” I reply.”
― Mayra Cuevas, Does My Body Offend You?