{"product_id":"luxxe-bottega-smart-sexy-e-book","title":"LUXXE BOTTEGA - SMART \u0026 SEXY (E-BOOK)","description":"\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA WOMAN WHO REFUSES TO CHOOSE.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is a lie this world has been telling women for centuries. It is quiet, insidious, and dressed in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elanguage of liberation. It sounds like this: you can be beautiful, or you can be taken seriously. You can be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eglamorous, or you can be intelligent. You can be admired for your mind, but only if you are willing to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eobscure your body. You can be desired for your beauty, but only if you are willing to silence your \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethoughts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is a refusal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA refusal to apologise for wanting both. A refusal to dress down your femininity in the name of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecredibility. A refusal to dim your intellect in the name of being approachable. A refusal to perform. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esmallness when you were built for magnificence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmart and sexy are not opposites. They are a love affair.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe word 'sexy' in this book does not belong to the male gaze. It belongs to you. Here, sexy is elegance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSexy is the way a woman carries herself when she has done the inner work. Sexy is aesthetic intention —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe deliberate cultivation of beauty as a form of self-expression, not performance. Sexy is allure, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epresence, the magnetic quality that radiates from a woman who is deeply at home in herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd the word 'smart' here is not merely academic. It is the full architecture of an awakened mind: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecuriosity, wisdom, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, cultural literacy, discipline, and the lifelong \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elove of learning. A woman who reads. A woman who thinks. A woman who revises her opinions and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpands her world and never, ever stops growing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTogether, they form something extraordinary. A woman who is both mentally developed and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaesthetically cultivated becomes a rare thing in this world — not because beauty and intelligence are rare \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eindividually, but because so few women allow themselves to inhabit both without apology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"She was not pretty in the way that makes men comfortable. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe was beautiful in the way that makes them nervous.\" - LUXXE BOTTEGA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 4\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book was written for the woman who has always felt that both belonged to her. The woman who \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereads novels and moisturises at night. Who attends lectures and chooses her wardrobe with intention. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWho can dissect a poem and a power structure in the same afternoon. Who has been told she is 'too \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emuch' and has decided, finally, magnificently, to become more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRead this slowly. Let it coat you. This is not a manual. It is a mirror — and you are going to love what \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyou see.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LUXXE BOTTEGA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221130162516,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1030\/3658\/4276\/files\/SMARTANDSEXYEBOOKCOVER.png?v=1782322764","url":"https:\/\/luxxebottega.com\/products\/luxxe-bottega-smart-sexy-e-book","provider":"LUXXE BOTTEGA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}