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“In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over. Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was—how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.”
― My Body
― My Body
“I want to calculate my beauty to protect myself, to understand exactly how much power and lovability I have.”
― My Body
― My Body
“Race day is fun, but training gives you moments of the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
― The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
― The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
“You’re going to die some day without ever having had enough trouble in your life. Not of the right kind anyway. This is your chance.”
― Plainsong
― Plainsong
“Arthur, I look at you, and I still see that boy on the beach with the red toenails. Not at first, but my eyes adjust. I see that twenty-one-year-old boy in Mexico. I see that young man in a hotel room in Rome. I see the young writer holding his first book. I look at you, and you’re young. You’ll always be that way for me. But not for anyone else. Arthur, people who meet you now will never be able to imagine you young. They can never go any further back than fifty. It isn’t all bad. It means now people will think you were always a grown-up. They’ll take you seriously. They don’t know that you once spent an entire dinner party babbling about Nepal when you meant Tibet.”
― Less
― Less
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