"Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable."

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Source : "'Bodies are a big business'". Interview with Julia Korbik, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 29, 2014.

Susie Orbach

#Insecure Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.”

Source : John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press
“I Can't Conceive of Thinking that I'm Too Old to Do What I Love”
“Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.”
“Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.”
“Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.”
“CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.”
“I was hungry and I was looking for a way to better my life. With boxing, I didn't have to make a team. It wasn't like baseball or football. I could just walk in the gym and start doing something that I liked.”

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