Quote by Cathy Alter

“I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.”

— Nicole Williams

“Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.”

— Cassandra Duffy

“You know a girl has turned into a woman when she concentrates less on grabbing food and more on making “others” eat.”

— Sneha Mehta

“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.”

— Naomi Wolf

“While I may hate that I was once fat, I am absolutely thankful that I grew up relying on something other than beauty.”

— Liza Palmer

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”

— Roxane Gay

“I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.”

— Fanny Fern

“Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance of a…

— Lionel Shriver

“The real woman does not want to be equal but different.”

— Federico Mangahas

“But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them…

— Laura Shapiro

“In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“All these much-celebrated choices that we have, apparently, us modern women. There are no choices, only higher expectations. Except”

— Jo Furniss