I find way more meaning in taking a moment to sit with my body and think about my relationship with it.
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I'm not asking you to be kind to a politician’s body because the politician deserves it, but rather, because everyone else does.
Running is a crappy way to lose fat and an inferior way to boost cardiovascular health, but it's somehow become the most popular exercise on Earth after walking. That's bad, because running sucks. There's a reason that up to 79 percent of runners get sidelined with an injury at least once per year:…
The brands previously thought you should feel one way about yourself, and now they have decided that’s no longer appropriate for their goals. How you talk about yourself should change, even if nothing has changed that would materially affect how you feel.
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
The message behind loving your body is a well-intended one, but it’s not for everyone.
Even when we’re unwanted, harassment still finds us.
In love there are two things, bodies and words.
We’ve created a society that protects itself from the darkness and the death and destruction that’s all around us. There’s probably a stack of dead bodies in a morgue within six blocks from here, but it’s so gross that we keep that compartmentalized.
You have to prove that you deserve to have yourself cut open.
I think of my body as animal, one that needs perpetually more than I can give her.
Let me be in my bubble. Let my identity be misled!
My father beat her when he liked. She never complained, and, in fact, she always spoke about how much she loved him. That was what love was.
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.
To know in their viscera what women have been saying all along — that sometimes sex hurts, that often we do not come, and that always it is about power. Most importantly, though, men might learn the truth about female power and female sexuality and female pleasure. That it is all possible and it is…
Your body is your body. Your life is your life. And your life is happening now —not twenty, fifty, a hundred pounds from now.
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.
The show has made me feel really ugly, because I assume that the women they cast are based on their perception of what a man would want— and all the women look the same to me on the show. They always have the same kind of long barrel curls and they’re all skinny. There’s no one that looks like me.
I know it’s a TV show and whatever, but would it hurt ratings that bad to have a woman whose thighs touch? Would they lose an advertiser?
Bobby: Why'd you send him outside? Sheriff Mills: Because I didn't think you'd want him in here. Bobby: I don't. I've got a body in the basement. Sheriff Mills: My point. Bobby: Yeah, but I've got another body buried in the yard.
— Andrew Dabb, Daniel Loflin, Bobby Singer, Jim Beaver, imdb.com