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When we're out there, you'll never know a lot of people are gonna look up to you. You don't realize it, but soon you go on social media and see all the messages and people try to reach out to you and you start to realize how huge and how people look up to you. ”
Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives. ”
Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake. ”
Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down. ”
I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to. ”
In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand. ”
Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time. ”
I'm very sensitive to the incredibly diverse range of opinions within religious and secular communities, and honestly, I'd appreciate if we focused first on the experiences and dignity of the people. ”
With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from. ”
Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice. ”