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 only time my prayers are never answered...I don't make jokes. I just watch the government...Play it, Sam...Laws made by common consent must not be trampled...Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't...Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality...