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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The Great Depression, like most other periods...It is legal because I wish it...I have a private life in which I do not permit...Life is one big love story...In the long run, we shape our lives...Of all God's creatures...