Lauren

“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“We still believe after all this time that if we hate ourselves enough we’ll end up loving ourselves.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Study after study has shown almost all behavioral and psychological differences between the sexes to be small or nonexistent. Cambridge University psychologist Melissa Hines and others have repeatedly demonstrated that boys and girls have little, if any, noticeable gaps between them when it comes to fine motor skills, spatial visualization, mathematics ability, and verbal fluency.”
― Angela Saini, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent man of the nineteenth century must be and is morally obliged to be primarily a characterless being; and a man of character, an active figure – primarily a limited being. This is my forty-year-old conviction. I am now”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground