No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.

Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

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