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I THINK ABOUT LIVING IN BEAUTY’S FUN HOUSE AS HAVING TWO ERAS: BEFORE DIGITAL and social media,* and the now. Before I was constantly confronted by my self-image via technology’s gaze, my sense of self was mostly formed by the community
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“Flaws include anything that indicates you’re a live human in a flesh vessel subject to the erosion of time and biology. It all becomes a bit of a dark comedy once you realize that the origin of error is simply remaining alive.”
― Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression
― Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression
“So many important life realizations I have had in checkout lines.”
― On the Surface
― On the Surface
“Glamorizing pain doesn’t do much to soothe it so much as circumvent the stigma of emotional distress and crystallize it into its own kind of neurotic vanity.”
― Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression
― Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression
“Catcalling is still a social casualty programmed into a generation that grew up consuming a hammerheaded kind of masculinity. What a prison of the mind to have to make a comment every time a woman walks by”
― Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression
― Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – A Sharp and Funny Examination of the Beauty Industry and Self-Expression
“You’re going to tease your way to an early grave.” “Better to die young with a smile on my face than live a long life without laughter.”
― The Wolf and the Woodsman
― The Wolf and the Woodsman
Maia’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, mystery-thriller, dystopia, and feminism
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