“Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.”
― The Female Eunuch
― The Female Eunuch
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
― Les Fleurs du Mal
“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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