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manages to put into words a lot of concepts i've been working around—

"To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men... A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself."

"One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at."

listening to this read by chiwetel ejiofor is such an incredible experience, i'm flying through it