Maia

“Glamorizing pain doesn’t do much to soothe it so much as circumvent the stigma of emotional distress and crystallize it into its own kind of neurotic vanity.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“So many important life realizations I have had in checkout lines.”
― Rachel McGuire, On the Surface

“But introducing inclusivity into an unchanged system just serves to distribute the labor and the expectations of that system to a more diverse set of people. It rolls out a dubious path toward attaining beauty ideals with tools and resources for all genders and skin colors, with no mention of the historic reasons they were excluded in the first place.”
― Sable Yong, Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression

“Life is such a strange thing”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian