" I found that their reactions did neither more nor less than reflect the inner nature of their characters, confirm values already established. The suspicious and antagonistic remained as they always had: suspicious and antagonistic of this piece, as they were of all things. My friends remained my friends, appreciating me for all the things they had always appreciated in me.The constants in this human experiment had remained consistent: it was me who was the variable. "

― Sarah A. Chrisman , Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself