remind you of anyone?
“It’s a systematic marginalizing of populations, Glinda, that’s what the Wizard’s all about.”
—Elphaba, Wicked
beauty ≠ morality
“By framing beauty as a moral achievement rather than what it often is—a combination of genetics, resources and medical intervention—we create an impossible standard. Women are expected to meet increasingly demanding beauty standards while maintaining the fiction that their appearance is entirely ‘natural’. The pressure to be beautiful becomes entangled with the pressure to be ‘good’.”
—Ellen Atlanta, “Why Are Celebrities So Keen to Deny Cosmetic Work?” in Dazed
LOST TIME
“There are days where I feel such crippling sadness, thinking of the years lost in that ridiculous palace. I wonder who I could have been otherwise.”
—Rebecca Thorne, Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea
Lindy West on weight loss
“I don’t think you can pursue deliberate weight loss without endorsing [a] body hierarchy. If you think you look better when you’re thinner, that means you think thin people are better than fat people. And they’re not.”
—Lindy West, on the podcast “Weight For It”
Rick Owens on beauty and intolerance
“My personal effort has been to oppose intolerance in any way that I can by proposing aesthetics that are not the accepted standards or not the enforced standards. I talk about airport beauty: we’re forced to march through this gauntlet of beauty—the beauty ads, the beauty goods, perfume things—that is exactly the same globally…and it’s narrow, and it can be a little bit cruel…I want to offer something that is not exactly that…
“I want to balance out intolerance by promoting alternatives to what are the standards of beauty. When you can blur the standards of beauty, you can open up minds to think of other things, too.”
restlessness
“I was restless, I needed something to engage me, and art was that something.”
—Louise Nevelson
from Louise Nevelson by Arnold Glimcher
Louise Nevelson on raisins
“When I put a raisin in my mouth, I know what I'm doing.”
—Louise Nevelson, on eating them one at a time instead of in handfuls
from Dawns + Dusks: Taped Conversations With Diana MacKown
Rick Owens on cake
“I have plenty of addictions. I mean, I smoke, I drink coffee, I have to have a certain amount of cake a day. So I have my addictions, and I’ve learned to accept them.”
—Rick Owens, when asked about his sobriety
impact, not intent
"Good intent doesn’t matter when the end result is harmful...You can’t act as a company but expect to be forgiven like a person."
—Jenna Yow, “The Problem With Critical Role’s Latest Campaign”
quote of the day
“Listen, I’m a pretty good judge of people. If I wasn’t, I couldn’t sell extension cords.”
—extension cord salesman, Monk, S1E13