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Turn and face the strange.

@chchchchchchanges

Melissa, 22, Brazil.
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“I want to live for myself a little, after all this time.”

Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Justin O’Brien, from “The Woman Destroyed,

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To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men. The social presence of women has developed as a result of their ingenuity in living under such tutelage within such a limited space. But this has been at the cost of a woman’s self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whist she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually.

John Berger in Ways of Seeing (via echymosis)