100 quotes found
“Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blo...”
“Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based becom...”
“I banned the use of fat as a slur hurled toward myself and strangers. I'm not saying I don't see fat; saying that is akin to the people who make grand statements about 'not seeing color.' Seeing co...”
“What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I'm at school?”
“Choose this life. Choose this body. Say yes to all of it. Say yes to the beauty and the good and the ugly and the difficult. Choose what you have, what you are. Choose this moment. Choose to love a...”
“This body needs me to say yes to it, just as it is right now. No more singing that same old jingle of body-shame and dieter's promised lands.”
“You know what would be fun, our schools administration likely thought, huffing glue out of an old sock. What if we make our cruellest eleven-year-olds assess each other in wet spandex for an hour e...”
“I was back in disgust. I stood in the centre of the big room, naked, letting the heat strike me from the three points of heat, and I knew, and it was an illumination one of those things one has al...”
“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
“You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have t...”
“It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.”
“Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, Thats interesting. I won...”
“We clean our plates, yet were still famishedstarving for something other than food.”
“Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.”
“Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy.”
“How stupid that all I have to dois grow two squishy lumps and suddenlyI'm man's best friend”
“Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of wome...”
“I found myself stuck into a Gertrudes Dream Waltz universe. Like Gertrude, I was trapped inside a body that bellied little of the person inside, while simultaneously ensnared in a home filled with ...”
“I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I dont find that look attractive on women and I dont want to become part of that trend. Its u...”
“We should bear in mind the supercrip stereotype as a figure obsessively, indeed maniacally, over-compensating for a perceived physical difference or lack, since, as we shall see, this aspect ties i...”
