Becky

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”
― Sue Grafton

“No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.”
― Celia Gilbert

“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women