Johnna

“In fact, I think an essential part of being a woman is finding that part of you that others would see as monstrous. Finding it and nurturing it so that it does not overtake who you are; if you ignore it, or try to hide it, that is when other people will turn it against you.”
― Nataly Gruender, Medusa

“The dancer's body in performance is, therefore, an act of mediation between the physical vocabulary of the dance form and personal conceptions of identity.”
― Barbara Sellers-Young, Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, And Harem Fantasy

“A monstrous woman is not a terrible thing to be.”
― Nataly Gruender, Medusa

“Many of us didn’t marry the woman we truly loved. We married the woman that was around when we were ready to
marry.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah