What those doctors offered was so tempting, so seductive: this notion that we could fall asleep for a few hours, and within a year of waking up, most of our problems would be solved, at least accordin...
Until that moment, Michael had not understood the vastness of the world and how small a place he held in it,
This world and its unwillingness to accept and accommodate me are the problem. But I suspect it is more likely that I can change before this culture and its attitudes toward fat people will change.
This required negotiating a fine balance, and I am a clumsy person.
This myth is like heels and purses—pretty but designed to SLOW women down.
This body is resilient. It can endure all kinds of things. My body offers me the power of presence. My body is powerful.
They require a diagnosis for her unlikability in order to tolerate her. The simplest explanation, of Mavis as human, will not suffice.
These sad stories will always weigh on me, though that burden lessens the more I realize who I am and what I am worth. 73 The thing is, though, loneliness, like losing control of my body, is a matter...
These are gifted adolescent women who don’t get to be judged on their impressive talent: their bodies are already paramount to the work they want to do and it’s only going to get worse. At sixteen the...
There’s no denying women are doing better than they ever have, but is that really saying much? When you consider what life was like for women before suffrage, before Title IX, before the Equal Pay Act...
There is nothing more desperate and unrequited than the love an unpopular girl nurtures for the cool kids.
There is a comfort, I suppose, to consuming violence contained in ninety-minute segments, muted by commercials for household goods and communicated to us by former television stars with feathered bang...
The word comes from the Latin word , to hunt. I find that cruel, to name something for that end which comes to pass.
The ways in which I am my mother’s daughter are infinite.
The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have. Many
The most profound of those realizations was that part of healing is taking care of your body and learning how to have a humane relationship with your body. I was broken and then I broke some more, and...
The freedom of being able to eat, so extravagantly and without limit, offered me the only true pleasure I knew in high school.
The Help, I have decided, is science fiction, creating an alternate universe.
Take, for example, someone like Don Lemon. He is a black man, raised by a single mother, and now he is a successful news anchor for a major news network. His outlook seems driven by the notion that if...
Sorrow allows us a freedom that happiness does not.