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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Everybody lies...I shall look as if I were suffering...Every once in a while, a new technology...I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it...I knew what I wanted to do in sport...Confront them with annihilation...
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