In fact, abortion is much safer than childbirth. From 1998 to 2005, sixty-four women died from a legal abortion out of over ten million abortions performed; in contrast, over 2,800 women died from childbirth out of thirty-two million
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“I am angry that the fashion industry is completely unwilling to design for a more diverse range of human bodies.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“But serial killers aren’t scary because they’re male; they’re scary because they destroy order.”
― Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
― Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
“weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“I knew where danger really lurked—in the woods behind well-manicured exclusive suburban neighborhoods, at the hands of good boys from good families.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“Most of us have these versions of ourselves that terrify us. We have these imperfect bodies we don’t quite know how to cope with. We have these shames we keep to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be too much.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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