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"We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food."

"Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season."

"Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy."

"How stupid that all I have to dois grow two squishy lumps and suddenlyI'm man's best friend"

"Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of women a..."

"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 pe..."

"You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty."

"Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodie..."

"I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don’t find that look attractive on women and I don’t want to become part of that trend. It’s u..."

"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 in q..."