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"My fat years were when I was not human shaped. I was a 16-stone triangle, with inverted triangle legs, and no real neck. And that's because I wasn't doing human things. I didn't walk or run or dance or swim or climb up stairs; the food I ate wasn't the stuff that humans are supposed to eat. No one is supposed to eat a pound of boiled potatoes covered in Vitalite, or a fist-sized lump of cheese on the end of a fork, wielded like a lollipop. I had no connection to or understanding of my body. I was just a brain in a jar. I wasn't a woman."
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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."
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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"The body has a mind of its own."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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"But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it."
Motherhood
"Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country."
Judgment
"When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible."
Judgment
"Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it."
Irony
"Always believe you can change the world " even if it's only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it."
Change
"The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric."
Freedom
"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
Aging
"Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children."
Choice
"I am eating this noise like mouthfuls of freezing, glittering fog. I am filling with it. I am using it as energy. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going."
Youth
"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."
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