Deirdre

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“New York just expects so much from a girl—acts like it can’t stand even the idea of a wasted talent or opportunity. . . . Rome says: enjoy me. London: survive me. New York: gimme all you got. What a thrilling proposition! The chance to be “all that you might be.” Such a thrill—until it becomes a burden.”
― Zadie Smith

“Who would I be if I didn’t live in a world that hated women?”
― Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
― Egon Schiele