Viriginia Woolf, from Selected Diaries (via petrichour)
"Many nights I wake in a shudder thinking of some atrocity of mine. I bring home minute pinpricks which magnify in the middle of the night into gaping wounds."
“Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem… . Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.”
- Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
