Jessica

“The Washington Post reported in 1995 that Americans were “fatter than ever before,” and that one of the leading theories why was because “a decade of dieting mania has actually made people fatter.”56”
― Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

“Do you think you deserve forgiveness?” His father arched his brows. “No one does, son. Forgiveness is a necessary evil so we do not poison ourselves with our own bitterness. When you do forgive me, it will be for your own sake, and I will be a happy casualty.”
― Elizabeth Bright, Lady Gone Wicked

“In our weight-obsessed health-care environment, it’s all too easy for genuine ailments to go undiagnosed, compromising people’s health and shortening their lives, all because of their doctors’ biased ideas about body size.”
― Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time—that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman