Hanne Blank famous quotes

There is no wrong way to have a body.
-- Hanne Blank

#Body #Way

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.
-- Hanne Blank

#Want

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.
-- Hanne Blank

#Heterosexuality #Privilege #States

The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.
-- Hanne Blank

#Moving #Apology #Thinking

And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases they are demonstrably affected or directed by culture and socialization. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.
-- Hanne Blank

#Perception #Mind #Culture

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.
-- Hanne Blank

#Real #Real Women #Fats

Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.
-- Hanne Blank

#Sex #People

You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world for other people. You're here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.
-- Hanne Blank

#People #Looks #World

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.

I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

Dance in the body you have.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.