Kim Chernin

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it…

— Kim Chernin

Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be…

— Kim Chernin

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the…

— Kim Chernin

“The sense of an unseen order, brooding attentively over our lives, restores purpose to individual acts of concern.”

— Kim Chernin

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric…

— Kim Chernin

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those…

— Kim Chernin

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

— Kim Chernin

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

— Kim Chernin

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

— Kim Chernin

“What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems…

— Kim Chernin