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XVII

I agree with everything
you’ve ever said or thought in your life.
— Matthew Thorburn, Now is Always a Good Time

XIV

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
— Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty

V

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
— Lorraine Hansberry

Artist: Julia Petrova