We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.
it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.
Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.
a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.
I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.
What's the best gamble in the world, right now? Its betting that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Short sellers borrowed money from their banks to place bets that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Now, it's wringing its hands and saying, "Oh the speculators are killing us. " But it's Deutsche Bank and the other banks that are providing the money to the speculators to bet on credit.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.
I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.