Body Quote by Kim Chernin Download Open image “a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.” — Kim Chernin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Emotional Emotional life Life Limitation Obsessed
“As she continually disregards and overrides her body's signals of hunger, fullness, and fatigue, a bulimic woman becomes increasingly disconnected from her subjective experience.… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“Obsessional people tend to be careful, do not take undue risks, check what they are doing and set themselves high standards. The negative side… — Dr Stefan Cembrowicz Copy Share Image
“When you are living a life of passion and obsession, there are no limits. There are no time clocks or time off, no vacations,… — George Ilian Copy Share Image
“At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Obsession is not love to someone you obsess with or person you care for, obsession is too much love to someone that can make… — Syrill Yumang Copy Share Image
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which… — Jean Kilbourne 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
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
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image