“It's not enough for candy to be candy. It has to symbolize candy too.”Tagged: food, Symbols, Instagram, candy, Hunger
“The women on The Bachelor shows aren't interested in marriage except as a certificate of completion; proof that they've become what a girl is still expected to become. What they're looking for is the chance to embark on the singular adventure they've read about and seen acted in movie after movie…”Tagged: the bachelor, Women, feminism, Marriage, gender roles
“The Bachelor presents itself as a show about beautiful young single people finding love, but the show is less a matchmaking service than a sporting event. The sport is femininity.”Tagged: the bachelor, Women, feminism, femininity
“Eat, Pray, Love felt about as authentic to me as the heroine's "journey" on The Bachelor: Either she triumphed against all odds, or she quietly disappeared. It had to be a certain kind of redemptive narrative for a certain kind of lady at a certain stage in life when perhaps she has taken to…”Tagged: Before and After,, Eat Pray Love, How to be a writer, Influencers, Savage roasts
“At the start of the book, Gilbert paints herself as a desperate suburban housewife in the throes of a nervous breakdown. But she was already a prize-winning journalist. She was rich. She'd had stories made into movies.”Tagged: Before and After,, Eat Pray Love, Writers, How to be a writer
“I wish I could say I was immune to the promise of the redemption narrative, but I found it hard to resist its mass-market allure. I also wanted very badly for it to save me.”Tagged: Before and After,, Eat Pray Love
“Eventually, she left her husband, moved to California with her daughter; and became an internationally best-selling author.”Tagged: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, My aesthetic
“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you're lucky. Or it's a dark mirror into which you can disappear.”Tagged: Women, feminism, Marriage
“A woman’s education was designed to coax her to sleep at sixteen and keep her unchanged and unconscious forever. It was an undoing. It wasn’t a start but a “finishing”.”Tagged: Women, feminism, Marriage