Elizabeth Benedict

Me, My Hair, and I

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  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    Hair matters because it’s always around, framing our faces, growing in, falling out, getting frizzy, changing colors—in short, demanding our attention:
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    It’s an early life lesson in basic grooming, a public window into the private household. In social science terms, hair is a signifier.
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    My hair and I have grown into ourselves and know what we’re about.
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    we took turns ironing each other’s tresses to suppress any bourgeois pro-­war tendencies toward curling
  • Ale Castañeda.has quoted7 years ago
    We get that hair is serious. It’s our glory, our nemesis, our history, our sexuality, our religion, our vanity, our joy, and our mortality
  • Ale Castañeda.has quoted7 years ago
    Hair matters because it’s always around, framing our faces, growing in, falling out, getting frizzy, changing colors—in short, demanding our attention: Comb me! Wash me! Relax me! Color me!
  • Ale Castañeda.has quoted7 years ago
    ASK A WOMAN about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life.
  • Ale Castañeda.has quoted7 years ago
    It’s like the medical field. Aside from people being born and dying, women will spend their last dime to get their hair done, so I’ll always have a job.
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