Sublime

To be defrauded of beauty is like being deprived of education or medicine.

This was the moment she realized she was free to create beautiful things, and be beautiful herself.

For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives.

And there, as years passed, this wonder-woman bore child after child, five of them—all girls.

“The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.”

Em had a slight lankiness to her. She wasn’t just slim, she was skinny, scrawny maybe, in a way Pat noticed other women noticing.