“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
“Even when we’re unwanted, harassment still finds us.”Tagged: #metoo, Sexual Assault, Rape, Body Image, Bodies