“The size of a body was never just the size of a body. Thinness was a door that opened to a world of happy marriages, perfect children, enviable careers, meteoric ascents. It was a divine healing fantasy: all the wrongs in their lives would be righted by endless self-flagellation, and the mantra of…”Tagged: How To Think, Psychology, Women, Body Mind Weight
“That meeting is where I first learned magical thinking. Through sheer force of will, these women intended to break their bodies like wild horses, starve them into submission, and, in so doing, attain the dazzling lives of thin women. They stayed hungry, forever famished, but were never quite thin…”Tagged: How To Think, Body Mind Weight, Philosophy, Emotion of the Body
“The size of a body was never just the size of a body. Thinness was a door that opened to a world of happy marriages, perfect children, enviable careers, meteoric ascents.”Tagged: Magical thinking, Bodies
“Your body is your body. Your life is your life. And your life is happening now —not twenty, fifty, a hundred pounds from now.”Tagged: Magical thinking, Bodies, Diets
“When my seat mate arrives, he doesn’t meet my eyes. He adjusts the arm rest, assertively claiming it as his own. He needn’t have — I have learned that any free space belongs to the thin.”Tagged: travel, fat, Bodies
“This is the arc of loving yourself: not a lightning bolt or a movie romance, not swelling strings or bursting fireworks, but the incremental and incomplete progress of a melting glacier, shaping the land where it once lay.”Tagged: Queerness, Womanhood, Identity, femininity
“Even when we’re unwanted, harassment still finds us.”Tagged: #metoo, Sexual Assault, Rape, Body Image, Bodies
“Love me enough to hold yourself to a higher standard. Love yourself enough to become a better man.”Tagged: Kavanaugh, feminism, Good Men
“I stopped fighting. And I started allowing myself to just be.”Tagged: Resolutions, New Year's Resolutions, Body Image, Weight, weight loss