I think I know now why a woman who looks and acts nothing like anyone we know, let alone us ourselves, would feel so familiar. It’s because what she is on the outside keeps everyone from paying any attention to who she is on the inside. To everyone who looks upon her, especially men, she is a shell inside which they can place whatever they want to believe. I think it’s an experience all women relate to. Because of the way we’re made on the outside, we’ve already been told who we are on the inside: what we can think, what we can do. Our shells, our bodies, they are vessels they have stuffed
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