“And don't spend your time looking around for something you want that can't be found. When you find out you can live without it and go along not thinkin' about it. I'll tell you something true, the bare necessities of life will come to you”
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“It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.”
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“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”
― Visual And Other Pleasures
― Visual And Other Pleasures
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