“If so, why has a naturally masculine shape (broad shoulders, no waist, narrow hips, flat belly) become the ideal for the female body? Why is it that those aspects of a woman’s body that are most closely related to her innate female power, the capacity of her belly, hips, and thighs to carry and sust…”— Anita Johnson, amazon.com
“The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. I always pose it this way. I say, ‘Lookit. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s wo…”— Warren Buffett, books.google.com
“Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.”— Adolph Gottlieb, amazon.com
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in anoth…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“The truth about the women who are forced to play these interesting chapters is that they are doing so in the memoirs of men who never deserved them. That the really good story, the story worth telling, has been theirs all along.”— Alana Massey, amazon.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“I wanted to be a beautiful woman dating a beautiful woman who wanted to fuck me. A bad-ass boss who thought I looked cute in a snapback hat but also cute without it. Someone who loved me and the diversity within me.”— Hannah Hart, amazon.com
“we spend hours picking our lipstick and call it an afternoon well spent. underneath, our skin hurts. it is trying so hard to grow and we are trying so hard to stop it.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be someone who hates peaches.”— Dita Von Teese, twitter.com
“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. Then something happened… and I was. Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. I never will be again.”— Quinta Brunson, thequintab.tumblr.com