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let’s see if this extra cup of coffee makes me good or evil

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Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

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Tezer Özlü, from her novel titled "Cold Nights of Childhood," published in 1980

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Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015

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Is there a listening device recording my conversations cuz how’d they know

Albert Camus, from "Personal Writings," originally published in 2020

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It’s like tumblr is inside my brain

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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“When I felt my stomach, my womb, my breasts and sternum, I saw that they didn’t just hold my memories, they held the rage and pain and isolation, the joy and passion and lust, of the women before me. My body remembered my mother’s life experiences and my grandmother’s and her mother’s before her. I felt the violations and indiscretions, the reverence and longings, from unfathomable years back.”

- The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

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The shame we attach to female sexuality is about control. Many cultures and religions control women's bodies in one way or another. If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was "women should not wear short skirts because they can get cancer if they do." Instead the reason is not about women, but about men. Women must be "covered up" to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Men see women’s bodies as sexual beings and sexual objects and it is hard for them to grasp that women’s bodies are more than just they sexual attraction and birthing humans. I don’t believe most men even realize it or it is even a conscious thing. Women just are portrayed constantly as sexual things.

This why they find it unbelievable when the women bodies had its advantages that men don’t have like higher immunity, low center gravity, long distance endurance and agility, better long distance swimming, even higher survival rate from bodily traumatic events.

The objectification and sexualization of breastfeeding is one of my biggest concerns too, women’s bodies are not sexual, pornography taught you that.

Men get to use their bodies in all kinds of ways, like for humor, and athleticism but if a woman did something like that it just becomes kink or sexualized content; and weird NSFW dressing accounts will sexualize you; it’s so wrong dude

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Anatomy exercises 10+ minutes each

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Vanité, 1930 | ph by André Garban

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“Although they are housed on her person, from the moment they begin to show, a female discovers that her breasts are claimed by others. Parents and relatives mark their appearance as a landmark event, schoolmates take notice, girlfriends compare, boys zero in; later a husband, a lover, a baby expect a proprietary share. No other part of the human anatomy has such semipublic, intensely private status, and no other part of the body has such vaguely defined custodial rights. One learns to be selectively generous with breasts—this is the girl child's lesson—and through the breast iconography she sees all around her, she comes to understand that breasts belong to everybody, but especially to men. It is they who invent and refine the myths, who discuss breasts publicly, who criticize their failings as they extoll their wonders, and who claim to have more need and intimate knowledge of them than a woman herself.”

-Susan Brownmiller, Femininity

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Blue Velvet, 1986.

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‘Blue Velvet’, acrylic on panel, by Andrew Valko (2008)