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“Denying people access to value is an incredibly insidious form of emotional violence, one that our culture wields aggressively and liberally to keep marginalized groups small and quiet.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Vultures are difficult to charm unless you’re off somewhere rotting in the noonday sun. Casually rotting…a glib cadaver.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“As a woman, my body is scrutinized, policed, and treated as a public commodity. As a fat woman, my body is also lampooned, openly reviled, and associated with moral and intellectual failure. My body limits my job prospects, access to medical care and fair trials, and – the one thing Hollywood movies and Internet trolls most agree on – my ability to be loved. So the subtext, when a thin person asks a fat person, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ is, ‘You must be some sort of alien because if I looked like you, I would definitely throw myself into the sea.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Please don’t forget: I am my body. When my body gets smaller, it is still me. When my body gets bigger, it is still me. There is not a thin woman inside me, awaiting excavation. I am one piece.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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