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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's…
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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of…
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Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic…
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She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the…
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Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go.…
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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
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Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the…
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Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat…
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She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.…
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She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity…
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The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In…
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Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?
— Groucho Marx
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[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it…
— Keith Olbermann
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She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.
— Joan Rivers
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She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'
— Isaac Babel
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She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of…
— Nancy Price
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The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…
— Raymond Chandler
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A woman is as young as her knees.
— Mary Quant
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Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.…
— Robert Adams
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Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far…
— Boyd Rice
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Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream.…
— Laini Taylor
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She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the…
— Aleister Crowley
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She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her…
— Denis Johnson
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