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"Shame wants us to be deeply apologetic for just daring to exist."

"I watched Sara with confusion and fascination, the way a child watches an animal he’s never seen— wide- eyed and kind of nervous. If Sara was hungry while we were on our way to a play, she’d ask us to stop. Because she was hungry. All of us stopped because she was hungry. I would have sooner lost consciousness on the sidewalk than draw attention to my hunger and, therefore, my body."

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today ?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said. A. A. MILNE, Winnie- the- Pooh