Meagan McDaniel

“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

“leaving is hard & leaving for the next place is not a task to rush. It’s a lazy Sunday in a hammock kind of undertaking. It’s a major surgery of the spirit.”
― Amber McBride, The Leaving Room

“anxiety doesn’t just stop. You can have nice moments, minutes where it shrinks, but it doesn’t leave. It lurks in the background like a shadow, like that important assignment you have to do but keep putting off or the dull ache that follows a three-day migraine. The best you can hope for is to contain it, make it as small as possible so it stops being intrusive. Am I coping? Yes, but it’s taking a monumental amount of effort to keep the dynamite inside my stomach from exploding.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“Our set point weight is the weight you maintain when you are eating intuitively, honouring your hunger and fullness cues and engaging in joyful movement.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture