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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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves...To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one...For me that's one of the great indulgences in life...No matter what happens in life, be good to people...If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures...If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us...
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