My Body Quotes
"I don’t know how to live without your love, I was born to make you happy."
"She’s so lucky, she’s a star, but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking."
"If there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks, then I’ll follow you into the dark."
"Intoxicate me now with your lovin’ now, I think I’m ready now."
"I’ll never forget what you looked like, his big head in your lap."
"Who hangs out with their family all weekend?"
"She’s the best kind of girl, she’s 100% confident."
"Please, never come find me. I don’t want to be in the dark with you."
"I cried because I felt guilty for abandoning Owen."
"I wanted to curl up and fall asleep forever."
"I cried because I didn’t feel like the heroine of my own life."
"But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking."
"If there’s nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?"
"I don’t have to, like, do anything specific, right?"
"I was desperate to start an adult’s life in Los Angeles."
"I wore S’s musty, oversized T-shirts so that I could feel swallowed up by him."
"I was no builder. The house got messy instead."
"I felt a strange sense of loss. Powerful men have always had that effect on me."
"Wasn’t I hustling just like they were? Wasn’t I on the same spectrum of compromise?"
"I watched models and actresses guarantee themselves financial success and careers by dating or marrying rich and famous men."
"The world celebrates and rewards women who are chosen by powerful men."
"So they were the hustlers, and I was—what, exactly?"
"It was undeniable that there was no way to avoid the game completely: we all had to make money one way or another."
"No one likes an angry woman. She is the worst kind of villain: a witch, obnoxious and ugly and full of spite and bitterness. Shrill."
"I am wondering if many of my readers have not stood before a masterpiece of lovely sculpture or a remarkable painting of a young girl, her very abandonment of draperies accentuating rather than diminishing her modesty and purity, and asked themselves the question, ‘Where is she now, this model who was so beautiful?’"
"I used to be unsure whether I should be grateful to you, for our friendship and the opportunities you gave me. But I’m no longer grateful. I do not believe I owe you anything."
"In life, where does your anger go? How do you release it?"
"I do not trust my own body to take the reins. And now someone is asking me, urging me, to let my body release anger. I am doomed to fail."
"I am with the people dearest to me on a bike ride on a beautiful day. Don’t you dare wuss out."
"I am angry now, not only for myself but for 'some girl in Russia' and all the young women and girls who see you as a gatekeeper, who line up before you to be judged as fuckable or not."
"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we’ve called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent."
"The disrespect you have shown me is appalling. It is ironic that you would approach me about an NFT—something that is all about ownership and subjects being recognized and receiving their dues—when you’ve spent the last ten years doing anything but granting me ownership: of my career and of my images."