Caroline Knapp Quotes

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

Caroline Knapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1959 - June 3, 2002

Topics

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Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.

Joe Lonsdale

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I like meat on my bones.

Jennifer Hudson

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I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.

Jenny Han

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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

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Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

Sue Johanson

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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

Robert Winston

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In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Ruud Gullit

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It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

Molly O'Keefe

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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Louise J. Kaplan

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Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Josephine Baker

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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

William Inge

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I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.

Sebastian Coe

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