Local Stimulant
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
If I were being didactic I would say that this, this pure and fiery solitude, is the time in which women form themselves—and that a patriarchal society has removed that privilege from us through the threat of eternal loneliness as a penance for the sin of loving yourself.
Lena Dunham • Lena Dunham Explores Alone Time After a Break-Up
Is there anyone who knows a young woman’s body better than her closest friends? By way of love or comparison or some combination of the two?