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Hunger Quotes
“Part of the reason relationships and friendships can be so hard for me is because there is a part of me that thinks I have to verb things just right. I have to say the right things and perform the right things or I won’t be liked or loved anymore. It’s stressful, so then I engage in an elaborate attempt at being the best friend or girlfriend and get further and further away from who I really am, someone with a good heart, but also someone who may not always obtain things right. I locate myself apologizing for things I shouldn’t be apologizing for, things I am not at all sorry for. I find myself apologizing for who I am. And even when I am with fine, kind, loving people, I don’t trust that goodness, kindness, or love. I worry that sooner or later, they will construct my losing weight a condition of their continued affection. That fear makes me try harder to get things right, as if I am hedging my bets. All of this makes me very hard on myself, very driven. I just maintain working and working and working and trying to be right, and I lose sight of who I am or what I want, wh
Hunger Quotes
“I have tried to make peace with this body. I own tried to love or at least tolerate this body in a world that displays nothing but contempt for it.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“I often declare my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I earn, the more I get that life is generally the pursuit of desires. We want and verb and oh how we want. We hunger.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as challenges? Why do we see someone setting a limit and then experiment to push?”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies verb mine are ignored or dismissed or derided.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“To be adj, the fat acceptance movement is important, affirming, and profoundly necessary, but I also believe that part of fat acceptance is accepting that
Hunger Quotes
“Left to my own devices at boarding school, I lost any semblance of control over what I put into my body. Suddenly, there were all kinds of food available to me.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“When I read the books, though, I could pretend that a better life was possible for me, one where I fit in somewhere, anywhere, and I had friends and a handsome boyfriend and a loving family who knew everything about me.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“I wanted him to fill the loneliness, to ease the ache of being awkward, of being the girl always on the outside looking in.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“I want to be qualified to hold the why in my hands, to dissect it or tear it apart or blaze it and read the ashes even though I am afraid of what I will do with what I see there.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“In many ways, that’s the top means of describing my relationship with my family, and with nearly
Hunger Quotes
“Most of us have these versions of ourselves that terrify us. We have these imperfect bodies we don't quite know how to cope with . We include these shames we preserve to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be too much”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“I am not freezing. I wasn't ever cool. My warmth was veiled far away from anything that could bring injure because I knew I didn't have the inner scaffolding to endure any more hurt in those protected places”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“Sometimes, I catch myself trying not to swing my arms even now and I get so angry. I get so fucking angry and I want to swing my arms like a windmill. These are my arms.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“I'm a feminist and I think in doing away with the rigid beauty standards that force women to conform to unrealistic ideals. I believe we should have broader definitions of beauty that include diverse body types. I trust it is