Something inspirational
I found this quote when I was about 14, I'd just heard about pro ana and was researchig it, then I came acros these feminism sites and discovered this quote from the beauty myth. It's always made me feel strong so I wanted to share.
"What if she doesn’t worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam-dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home bare-foot, holding her shoes, alone at dawn; she might baby-sit in a battered-women’s shelter one night a month; she might skateboard down Lombard Street with its seven hairpin turns, or fall in love with her best friend and do something about it, or lose herself for hours gazing into test tubes with her hair a mess, or climb a promontory with the girls and get drunk at the top, or sit down when the Pledge of Allegiance says stand, or hop a freight train, or take lovers without telling her last name, or run away to sea. She might revel in all the freedoms that seem so trivial to those who take them for granted; she may dream seriously the dreams that seem so obvious to those who grew up with them really available. Who knows what she would do?
- Naomi Wolf
:)
"What if she doesn’t worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam-dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home bare-foot, holding her shoes, alone at dawn; she might baby-sit in a battered-women’s shelter one night a month; she might skateboard down Lombard Street with its seven hairpin turns, or fall in love with her best friend and do something about it, or lose herself for hours gazing into test tubes with her hair a mess, or climb a promontory with the girls and get drunk at the top, or sit down when the Pledge of Allegiance says stand, or hop a freight train, or take lovers without telling her last name, or run away to sea. She might revel in all the freedoms that seem so trivial to those who take them for granted; she may dream seriously the dreams that seem so obvious to those who grew up with them really available. Who knows what she would do?
- Naomi Wolf
:)
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I like that a lot.
awe i like it =]
yeh thats so sweet. I love the Pogues :D
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