I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The womanliness of my forties had fallen from me, along with my curls, my little double chin and my rounded hips. At… — Marlen Haushofer Copy Share Image
“Hadar, the only time I feel black is when I look at my hands," Spencer said, spreading his fingers out in front… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception. — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets. — Drake Copy Share Image
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
“She was used to living her life from a distance, watching herself from the back row as she mouthed someone else’s lines… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.” — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
“We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
“He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“From the start, our environment shapes who we are. We don't always see it, but we are similarly influenced by what the… — C.B. Lansdell Copy Share Image
“Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.” — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
