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“Childhood heroines had shown me who I wanted to be, but teenage heroines showed me who I was afraid of becoming—a girl whose life revolved around her desirability, who was interesting to the degree that her life spun out of control.”

“But the worse the internet gets, the more we appear to crave it—the more it gains the power to shape our instincts and desires.”

“The internet is governed by incentives that make it impossible to be a full person while interacting with it.”

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