Elisabeth Bromberg

“Part of the reason relationships and friendships can be so difficult for me is because there is a part of me that thinks I have to get things just right. I have to say the right things and do the right things or I won’t be liked or loved anymore.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“The medical community is not particularly interested in taking the pain of women seriously.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“As a woman, as a fat woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up space. I live in a contradictory space where I should try to take up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body