In the old days, I would have paraded over and shown him my eyebrow ring. If he liked it, I would have been the happiest person on the planet. If he said it looked dumb, I would have taken it out instantly. But now I couldn't care less what Byron thinks. (23.13)
As the book's patron saint Ani DiFranco says, "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." In this case, the tool is body jewelry, and holding it right means putting it in your eyebrow.
