My body was just bigger. It shouldn’t have made my life that different.
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Quotes tagged ‘Bodies’
Eilish’s goal isn’t celebration of her body, but rather to ignore it entirely and make her audience focus on her voice.
This discomfort with strangers is nearly behind me.
I won’t exactly look like the Hulk — maybe more like Superman after having a few Chipotle burritos — but it’s possible that I’ll require alterations nonetheless. And as per my contract, if I do, I’ll bear full financial responsibility for them.
These physiological changes may then lay the groundwork for our brains to start considering our uncomfortable surroundings.
Everything you eat seems to make some disease worse, right? Except, of course, kale.
I still don't know what fashion really is, and maybe that's the point. Maybe what fashion is right now — and what it was before — matter less than what it can be, and we need to be paying attention to the people who are defining that.
For women, the baby-making machine is typically first to go.
There’s no doubt: If I wrote down everything that would be better if I lose weight, the list would be as long as the Old Testament. If I wrote down everything that might get worse, it wouldn’t fill up an index card. But this is why people buy insurance—to hedge against unlikely disasters.
It's hard to be positive about your body; oftentimes, not because you hate yourself in any way, shape or form but because the world hates you.
It costs exactly zero dollars to be kind to new people at your gym who might already be uncomfortable just being there.
It’s the day to gather with your family and friends ‘round the hearth, warm beverages and sweet treats at the ready, and have a hearty chortle over the things America stuck inside itself and couldn’t remove without the help of trained medical personnel.
Fatphobia is a great selling point, but what we need to understand is that it’s only that: a selling point.
Jude Ellis: Look, I've been dealing with the feds my whole career. This is how it works. They want a case, they take it. Nestor Rosario: Yeah, but it's like you said, they washed up on our beach, right? Jude Ellis: It's their beach now.
— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Jude Ellis, Steve Zahn, imdb.com
Jude Ellis: So, I sent my coroner to the hangar, and apparently, your men won't let him in to see the bodies. Then I come here, these guys won't let me down to the beach. Emma Ren: I apologize. I should've given you the heads-up. I can no longer have you and your men on this site. Jude Ellis: You ca…
— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Jude Ellis, Steve Zahn, imdb.com
Nestor Rosario: Between us, those people...what are they saying? Jude Ellis: Nothing that makes any sense. [heavy sigh] They're storing the bodies in that plane hangar off 81. Tell Ruben to get down there, log prints, record any identifying marks. Nestor Rosario: Sure you don't want the feds handlin…
— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Jude Ellis, Steve Zahn, imdb.com
To set a fat woman in a place of dominance such as that is to throw away the stereotypical gender balance we’re accustomed to.
Rebecca Adler: I just want to die with a little dignity. Dr. Gregory House: There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's…
Bodies are for hookers and fat people!
It’s as if my body, independent of me or my thoughts, is mourning the loss of the nose; the body is crying because it’s missing one of its own. Or, is it possible that my body is trying to fill the hole in my face, albeit with tearfall?