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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Family life is too intimate to be preserved...To be more childlike, you don't have to give up...Posterity! You will never know how much it cost...My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable...Our greatest weakness lies in giving up...The person, be it gentleman or lady...
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