Caroline Knapp
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body — waiflike, angular — that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man...In everyone's life, at some time...Never go to excess...Love is an ice cream sundae...Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body...My best friend is the one who brings out...
