lily’s Reviews > Ways of Seeing > Status Update

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."