“The Austen Tower is there ascending into the sky, filled with magazines and TV shows that tell women how they can avoid looking like me. I’m every American woman’s worst nightmare. It’s what they spend their lives fighting against, it’s why they diet and exercise and have plastic surgery—because they don’t want to look like me.” “Keep going.” “Kitty doesn’t want me working in her office. I’m the embodiment of everything she hates.” It hurt to say it, but it felt good, too.
