Victorian Secrets Quotes

“everyone’s supposed to fall into three size categories—small, medium, and large.” “Not that a small is really small anymore,” he smirked. “Right,” I laughed. “More like large, extra-large, and ginormous.”
― Sarah A. Chrisman, Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself

“So what if I get hungry later? I’ll eat later—when I’m hungry! What on earth have I been so worried about?”
― Sarah A. Chrisman, Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself

“In my own mind, I reflected that part of why I enjoy wearing a corset so much is that it is an accentuation of this difference. A woman is not an inferior man, so why should she dress like one?”
― Sarah A. Chrisman, Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself

“I found that their reactions did neither more nor less than reflect the inner nature of their characters, confirm values already established. The suspicious and antagonistic remained as they always had: suspicious and antagonistic of this piece, as they were of all things. My friends remained my friends, appreciating me for all the things they had always appreciated in me.The constants in this human experiment had remained consistent: it was me who was the variable.”
― Sarah A. Chrisman, Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself