Marina Warner — British Novelist born on November 09, 1946,

Dame Marina Sarah Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBA is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications over the years, including The London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Vogue. She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities... (wikipedia)

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.
I avoid looking in the mirror.
I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.