Sarah Wood
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writer based in barcelona
Sarah Wood
“Isolation,” Holly Whitaker writes in her book Quit Like a Woman, is “an almost inextricable and necessary part of recovery”—it is “what saves you, what breathes you, [and] what makes your bones.”
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“Real power doesn’t come from having a million followers, good hair, a Louis Vuitton purse, a new car, a new home, a title, a partner, or anything that can be weighed, measured, or acquired. Real power is the thing you’ve always had inside you. Real power doesn’t need to be demonstrated or boasted. Real power is the ability to be in your skin
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Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
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“Sobriety, if it is anything, is paying attention, seeing the wonder and the beauty around us that we so easily sprint by on our way to the next thing. And this is more than fun; this is actually living.”
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
I honestly think in 30 years society will look at alcohol like we look at tobacco today. You can already see it starting—Gen Z consumes 20% less alcohol than Millennials did at the same age.
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“There is the life that most of us live, and then there is the life we have buried deep inside us, the life we know we’re supposed to be living.”
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
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