"Susan Bordoâ€™s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book."

-- Susan Griffin

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“You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.”
“Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.”

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“Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process, is being given to human beings.”
“I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.”
“In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery”
“I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.”
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”

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