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1 " I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It’s just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity. "
― Sheila Heti , Women in Clothes
2 " A problem I’ve always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. While I suspect that many men enjoy copying other men (consider the idea of the alpha male and beta males), and while part of what makes a man “superior” is how close he can get to “embodying manliness "
3 " I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it. "
4 " style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE "
5 " But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable. "
6 " The most compelling women are the ones who are distinctive, who are most like themselves and least like other women. "
7 " It’s like being a good curator—like Barnes—getting the combination of everything so right that nobody even questions it; making a hard thing look easy. "
8 " To me it’s also talking about how it’s okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to have some other identity. "