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Dietland QUOTES

Dietland QUOTES

1 " I think it's a response to terrorism. From the time we're little girls, we're taught to fear the bad man who might get us. We're terrified of being raped, abused, even killed by the bad man, but the problem is, you can't tell the good ones from the bad ones, so you have to wary of them all. We're told not to go out by ourselves late at night, not to dress a certain way, not to talk to male strangers, not to lead men on. We take self-defense classes, keep our doors locked, carry pepper spray and rape whistles. The fear of men is ingrained in us from girlhood. Isn't that a form of terrorism? "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

2 " She waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?” —Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

3 " An early and important source of inspiration for Dietland was Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s novel and the film adaptation directed by David Fincher. I would like to think that Dietland would exist even if Fight Club hadn’t provided that initial spark of an idea, but I’ll never know. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

4 " Magazines are part of the global dissatisfaction industrial complex. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

5 " The CEO knew cocks were bad for business. Breasts she could get away with. Women knew their place, but with men it wasn’t as simple. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

6 " I'm used to crazy bitter women making threats. They complain incessantly that my fashion magazines exploit women. Then on the other hand they complain that the alleged exploitation isn't spread around equally among the fat ones and the ethnic ones. I gave up listening to them years ago. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

7 " There was a wound somewhere deep inside of me. It never healed. But after I began to take "Y", I could no longer feel it. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

8 " We can’t hide it or fake it. We’ll never fit society’s idea for how women should look and behave, but why is that a tragedy? We’re free to live how we want. It’s liberating, if you choose to see it that way. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

9 " There was a phantom woman in my mind that I was comparing myself to, and I had to force her from the dressing room. When she was gone, I looked at my body, the body that had kept me alive for nearly thirty years, without any serious health problems, the body that had taken me where I needed to go and protected me. I had never appreciated or loved the body that had done so much for me. I had thought of it as my enemy, as nothing more than a shell that enclosed my real self, but it wasn’t a shell. The body was me. This is your real life. You’re already living it. I removed the clothes and stood naked before the mirrors, turning this way and that. I was round and cute in a way I’d never seen before. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

10 " That required living in Dietland, which meant control, constriction—paralysis, even—but above all it meant obedience. I was tired of being obedient. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

11 " The weight-loss industry is the most profitable failed industry in history, "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

12 " This is your real life. You're already living it. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

13 " I was wearing bright colors, refusing to apologize for my size. The dress made me feel defiant. For the first time, I didn't mind taking up space. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

14 " I’m every American woman’s worst nightmare. It’s what they spend their lives fighting against, it’s why they diet and exercise and have plastic surgery—because they don’t want to look like me. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

15 " I looked at my body, the body that had kept me alive for nearly 30 years, without any serious health problems, the body that had taken me where I needed to go and protected me. I had never appreciated or loved the body that had done so much for me. I had thought of it as my enemy, as nothing more than a shell that enclosed my real self, but it wasn’t a shell. The body was me. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

16 " People had always insulted me by calling me fat, but they couldn’t hurt me that way, not anymore. I was fat, and if I no longer saw it as a bad thing, then the weapon they had used against me lost its power. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

17 " The truth is a lonely place, but it doesn’t matter. I have a new family now. A better one. "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

18 " I want you to consider something, hon. What if it’s not possible for you to ever become thin? What if there is no one day? What if this is your real life right now? What if you’re already living it? "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

19 " You’ve got to be kidding,” she said. “I came here to lose a few pounds because of back pain. What kind of sick, self-loathing mindfuck is this? "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland

20 " The police and the “justice” system don’t take violence against women and girls seriously. If you’ve been assaulted or harassed, take the law into your own hands. Form vigilante groups with other girls. Sign up for self-defense classes, but don’t just use the skills defensively. Go on the offensive! "

― Sarai Walker , Dietland