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> [So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/so-many-of-my-memories-are-generated-by-and-organized-around-food/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

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## More by Kate Christensen

> [When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/when-you-re-sixteen-and-struggling-to-forge-an-identity-out-of-a/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/turning-the-blog-into-a-book-was-extremely-difficult-a-tremendous/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/as-an-adult-i-generally-feel-this-pressure-to-be-thin-not-from-men/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/writing-blog-posts-is-totally-freeing-in-a-whole-new-way-for-me-i-m/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/the-pressure-to-be-thin-which-causes-guilt-and-obsessiveness-around/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [“Let nothing human be foreign to me”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/let-nothing-human-be-foreign-to-me/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/blogging-is-different-from-both-journal-writing-and-writing-for-print/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [“I scrambled to pack my things, glad I owned so little.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/i-scrambled-to-pack-my-things-glad-i-owned-so-little/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/my-sudden-unforeseen-capitulation-had-knocked-me-backward-and-i-had/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/thank-god-for-my-hobgoblin-small-minded-consistency/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/i-was-also-writing-in-a-tradition-and-trying-to-do-something/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/now-that-i-no-longer-feel-lonely-and-now-that-my-own-past-feels/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and terrible, overwhelming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/to-taste-fully-is-to-live-fully-and-to-live-fully-is-to-be-awake-and/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/i-had-to-detach-myself-from-myself-if-that-makes-any-sense-to-conjure/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

> [I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-christensen/i-wanted-to-capture-time-through-how-food-and-i-were-getting-along-at/)

[Kate Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-christensen/)

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