Meagan McDaniel

“diet culture is a set of beliefs that puts thinness, shape and size above all else and equates it with health, success, happiness and moral virtue.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“It’s about changing the way I think. Which sounds so simple, but whether I like to admit it or not, anxiety has become my best friend. It’s a crutch that helps me hobble through life. It’s the brassy bitch at school that I don’t like, but being her BFF makes me popular. Or the school bully that I don’t really want to be around, but being his friend means I don’t get beat up. I don’t know how to be safe without it. We’re buddies. It’s like they say: keep your friends close, your enemies closer.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“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