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“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultle...”
“There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin.”
“That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real bo...”
“Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.”
“Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.”
“I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know that everyone around me keeps telling me that ...”
“We may not be able to control life’s circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.”
“I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.”
“Sometimes the ugliest parts of ourselves are what others love the most.”
“Truth be told, I’m still in awe of her, but I found it easier to relate to her. She really made me see that we are all the same. We all suffer the same feelings of inadequacy because we are not lik...”
“There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.”
“I’m a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that’s not what I think of as sexy.”
“Am I less of a person because I weigh more?”
“Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverl...”
“What is this food in my head, anyway? Let’s see...it’s green and good for you and so delicious. It’s prepared by angels with love. The minute you bite into it, it’s savory, chewy, nourishing, and w...”
“I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had — no matter what.”
“You know what would be fun,” our school’s 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 hou...”
“We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.”
“I found myself stuck into a Gertrude’s 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...”
“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...”
