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How many women wrote beautiful novels and stories and poems and essays and plays and scripts and songs in spite of all the crap they endured. How many of them didn’t collapse in a heap of “I could have been better than this” and instead
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“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
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“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
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“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”
― Ways of Seeing
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”
― Ways of Seeing
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.”
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