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1 " There are certain things we owe our little sisters. "
― Claire Hennessy , Nothing Tastes as Good
2 " This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points. "
3 " I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious. "
4 " I think people can be very nice and charming without being decent human beings. "
5 " Also, I think shutting down discussions in the way that's suggested here is actually potentially more dangerous. Someone who's really interested will just look on the internet. It's like porn. The stuff you stumble across is much worse. "
6 " Maybe she knows, like I do, how harmful help can be, how sometimes the people who claim to care about you can hurt you the most. "
7 " In the world, when someone looks at a person like Julia they think weak. They think lazy. They see the fat and they know exactly how she got that way. Even the most politically-correct individual knows it deep down, but bites their tongue in public. We all know what it means, to be fat, to fail. "
8 " And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control. "
9 " Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone. "
10 " Every time you say ‘no thank you’ to food, you say ‘yes please’ to skinny. "
11 " There is a word that shrinks love using. It is 'resilient'. The idea seems to be that some people, better people, have thick outer shells and don't let things bother them. Don't let the voices in. "