Anuschka Rees

“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is even more pronounced, their need for relief just as palpable and desperate.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“The moment we see a pop artifact offering even a sliver of something different—say, a woman who isn’t a size zero or who doesn't treat a man as the center of the universe—we cling to it desperately because that representation is all we have.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“But that's how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere, and going elsewhere, and that they would recognise me when they saw me. They would like me enough that it wouldn't matter if I liked myself. They would see the good in me so that I could, too.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"