Stephanie Klein

“I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.”

— Stephanie Klein

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake…

— Stephanie Klein

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how…

— Stephanie Klein

“Are you, are you happy?" I am today," she said. Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that…

— Stephanie Klein

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

— Stephanie Klein

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

— Stephanie Klein

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you

— Stephanie Klein

The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was…

— Stephanie Klein

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner,…

— Stephanie Klein

It's about not rewarding your children with food, not always celebrating with food. I do think it's important to find other ways…

— Stephanie Klein

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't…

— Stephanie Klein

If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things…

— Stephanie Klein

“Oh good, everything was back to normal - I was talking to myself again.”

— Stephanie Klein

“I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually…

— Stephanie Klein

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

— Stephanie Klein

“I hated that I let him touch my sweat, that he knew how I kissed. I wanted to collect my things from…

— Stephanie Klein

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state.…

— Stephanie Klein

I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at…

— Stephanie Klein

With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that…

— Stephanie Klein

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself.…

— Stephanie Klein

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame…

— Stephanie Klein

“I was on a mission. I had to learn to comfort myself, to see what others saw in me and believe it.…

— Stephanie Klein

“Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.." Stephanie," he took both my hands, "how could you do…

— Stephanie Klein

“Dating meant nightclubs, heels, and black. It meant, "No, thank you. Really, I'm full." It meant matching bras and underwear. Clothes with…

— Stephanie Klein

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't…

— Stephanie Klein