Vanessa

“As Naomi Wolf puts it, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.” Thin bodies are the bodies of women who behave themselves.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

“It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“I realized that if we aren’t vigilant, we can move through our entire lives feeling smaller than we actually are—by playing it safe, by unconsciously giving away our power, by dimming our radiance, by not recognizing there is always so much more waiting for us on the other side of fear.”
― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

“I eat white-lady tears for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower