When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.
Become goddesses of disobedience.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful. " If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.
Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.
It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.
With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.
People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.