MIRRORS
- "As Medusa, I wrote about refusing to look at myself in the mirror lest I turn myself to stone" (41)
- "Standing in front of the mirror, my reflection and I were like rival animals, just moments away from tearing each other limb from limb” (116)
- -How We Fight For Our Lives, Saeed Jones
- "By far, the most horrible thing about this glass bar, this cellophane palace in which I currently sit, is the fact that everywhere you turn is a reflective surface" (319)
- -Punch Me Up to the Gods, Brian Broome
- "From that point on I had a semi-addictive relationship to mirrors. I left class as often as I could just to look at myself. When other girls came in, I pretended I'd been washing my hands. I couldn't walk by windows without following my reflection, a doll moving along next to me" (17)
- -A Year Without A Name, Cyrus Grace Dunham
"Looking into the mirror is of course a figure for the autobiographical act: autobiography is ostensibly anyway the literary act of self-reflection, the textual product of the “I” reflecting on itself"
-Jay Prosser, Second Skins
