Dagmar

“On a good day, I'd call people sexist who condemned a woman for capitalizing on her body. On a bad day, I'd hate myself and my body, and every decision I'd made in my life seemed like a glaring mistake. Mostly, though, I knew I was a whole, complex person with thoughts and ideas and things I wanted to make and say. I wanted so desperately to prove them all wrong. I just hadn't gotten the change yet.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“In these moments, I don't hesitate. I rise to the challenge; I want to pass the test. I want to make it seem like there is no power dynamic at all, like I'm simply doing my job. I will reveal my body as naturally and uneventfully as I might do anything else. I look down at my body and it doesn't feel like my own. It feels like something, but not me. They can look at me all they want, because they're right; my body is just a tool.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“It didn’t occur to me that what I wanted from S was the same thing that my mother craved from me: to have someone live in her pain with her.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. I stood on their shoulders to get here.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body