Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“The sense of an unseen order, brooding attentively over our lives, restores purpose to individual acts of concern.” — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached. — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems in the… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
