Kim Chernin famous quotes

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 an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.
-- Kim Chernin

#Moving #Athlete #Weight

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

#Emotional #Body #Obsessed

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

#Daughter #Mother #Losing

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.
-- Kim Chernin

#Giving Up #Lying #Long

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.
-- Kim Chernin

#Country #Events #Doe

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.
-- Kim Chernin

#Fashion #Art #Issues

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.
-- Kim Chernin

#Vision #Culture #Outsiders

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

#Science #Judgment #Dispassionate

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.
-- Kim Chernin

#Thinking #Wish #Way

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.

...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.