“The thinking that women of all shapes and sizes can be beautiful is still hugely problematic, because it is predicated on the idea that the most important thing a woman has to offer the world is her appearance. Men are raised to worry about their legacies, not their upper arm and thigh fat, stretch marks, crows-feet, saggy elbows, ugly armpits, thin eyelashes, and normal-smelling genitals.”
― The Favorite Sister
― The Favorite Sister
“I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps.”
― Why We Broke Up
― Why We Broke Up
“It is a dangerous thing to conflate feminism with liking all women. It limits women to being one thing, likable, when feminism is about allowing women to be all shades of all things, even if that thing is a snake oil saleswoman.”
― The Favorite Sister
― The Favorite Sister
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“A woman in a home only big enough for herself is the ultimate fuck you to patriarchal society. It says I am enough for me.”
― The Favorite Sister
― The Favorite Sister
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