“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
being a woman is like you have too many eyes and too many voices and none of them are yours
(via shakysmiles)
“One day, perhaps some idle tongue mentions your name by accident: I feel as if a rose were flung into the room, all hue and scent.”— Wisława Szymborska, from “Nothing Twice”
