We need to believe in our presence. Wherever there is, we’re supposed to be there.… Women are doing amazing things around the globe, but it’s time to free our bodies.… It’s time to take our amazing brains and do whatever we can—in my case draw—to help ourselves and others liberate our bodies so that we may truly dance.—Liza Donnelly

Liza Donnelly, photo by Craig Semetko, via her website.

• New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly talks about “the social and political implications of the woman’s body” while showing the cartoons she’s created over the years in a Ted Talk featured in my post “Liza Donnelly on the Life of our Bodies.” That Ted Talk is the source of this week’s quote.
• Learn more about Liza Donnelly on her website.
• Check out her book, When Do They Serve the Wine? The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman.
• Read her posts on culture and politics at Forbes.

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