"The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kate Christensen

#Home Quotes #Boys Quotes #Blue Quotes

“On balance, the financial system subracts value from society”
“Having said that, Angela Merkel's electoral district is here [ in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania].And so, if Chancellor Merkel loses here, her party, which has ruled in a coalition government for the last decade here with the Social Democrats - if they lose today, then it's really a very significant slap to the face, if you will. And this is coming at a time when the chancellor is being asked to decide whether she will stand for another term.”
“The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.”
“A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.”
“I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.”
“So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.”
“During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.”

Source : Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.491
“It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 115), 1968.

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