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“The power of what women really want is so forceful, so potentially iconoclastic, she argues, that the only way to control it is to distract us with self-loathing, and the lifelong project of disciplined self-maintenance.”

“The more weight I lost, the smaller the clothes I wore, the more tips I received in return. Being skinny seemed to bring blessings from the universe, even if none of them was happiness.”

“For the last twenty-five years, the women our culture has loathed the most have unfailingly been the same ones we can’t stop watching.”

“The decision to make movies is mostly made by men, and if men don’t have to make movies about women they won’t.”

"i've always wondered why people diminish girlhood as somehow cosseted or twee, when the reality of coming-of-age as a young woman is so raw, filled with emotional violence and literal blood. do girls not suffer enough to be taken seriously?"