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“The medical community is not particularly interested in taking the pain of women seriously.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“What I know and what I feel are two very different things.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“I have tried to make peace with this body. I have tried to love or at least tolerate this body in a world that displays nothing but contempt for it.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― 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.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Elisabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
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