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how it feels to become an active participant in your own life

“The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy. It is also the reflection in woman’s consciousness of the fact that she is under surveillance in ways that he is not, that whatever else she may become, she is importantly a body designed to please or to excite.”

oh okay it’s spring, I’m young, I’m lovely, I have the right to be happy and I can come back into the world

when a friend is reading a book I've already read: ahh, very nice, the gift of knowledge keeps being spread and perhaps they'll dwell on the same passages as I. What a beautiful world

how it feels to go to the library without a specific book in mind and to leave with a stack of books you’re excited about in your arms just like you did as a little kid