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“You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people’s sake. You aren’t here to decorate the world for other people. You’re here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.”
― Hanne Blank, The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts

“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red A's on our chests.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“I want to get one thing straight right from the start: I am not a natural-born jock. I am about as intrinsically athletic as an oyster, with the innate grace and sporty prowess of a brick—a very cute oyster and a very intelligent brick, if I do say so myself, but oysterly and bricklike nevertheless.”
― Hanne Blank, The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts

“I learned from an early age that if it feels bad, it's good, and if it feels good, you are bad”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water