We don’t notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you’re the same for seven years. It’s like a ground – it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It’s exciting and dangerous. Alexandra Kleeman Read Quote
Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don’t feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I’m doing, I think back on it, and I’ve just been by myself. Like, I’m just a sketch. Alexandra Kleeman Read Quote
I’m really interested in passivity as a type of action – sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission. Alexandra Kleeman Read Quote
Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don’t, you’re always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you’re wearing it, and what that means. Alexandra Kleeman Read Quote
