Meagan McDaniel

“Fragile. Upset. Weak. Thin. Afraid. Failing. And tired. Above everything else, tired of battling with my own mind.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“Despite what we’re taught, real fulfilment only really comes from making a life that is meaningful – from building precious relationships and forming connections to pursuing passions, discovering your purpose, building a sense of self and living with compassion. Having a thinner waist is not going to be your legacy, I promise.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“It’s hard to smash the patriarchy on an empty stomach, or with a head full of food and body concerns, and that’s exactly the point of diet culture,’ wrote Harrison, while Wolf famously said: ‘Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“Keeping women busy with body concerns is one way of making sure they stay quiet and obedient – of keeping them shrinking, literally and metaphorically.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture