Eve

“This is to say, I know what it means to hunger without being hungry.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of behavior, choices I’m making where I’m trying too hard, giving too much, reaching too intently for being right when right is what someone else wants me to be. It’s scary, though, trying to be yourself and hoping yourself is enough. It’s scary believing that you, as you are, could never be enough.”
― Roxane Gay, 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.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body