...there are individual ways that we work our way through all of these systems that are corrosive and inescapable. But if there is a solution to the system itself, it's at a collective level. It's the level of policy and politics, it's not at the level of individual choice. Jia Tolentino
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. Judith Lewis Herman
When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined. Olivier Theyskens