quotes from 'The Good Body' by Eve Ensler
"Maybe she could tolerate who I was if there were less of me."
-talking about her mother.
"We have to be funny. Fat girls give the best head. Don't we, Eve? We work harder to keep our men. Fat girls always swallow." Bernice, an african american teenage camper.
"My stomach is America."
-Eve
"What I can't believe is that someone like me, a radical femenist for nearly thirty years, could spend this much time thinking about my stomach. It has become my tormentor, my distractor; it's my most serious commited relationship." -Eve
"Maybe I identify with these women becuase I have bought into the idea that if my stomach were flat, then I would be good and I would be safe. I would be protected. I would be accepted, admired, important, loved. Maybe because for most of my life I have felt wrong, dirty, guilty, and bad, and my stomach is the carrier, the pouch for all that self hatred. Maybe because my stomach has become the repository for my sorrow, my childhood scars, my unfullfilled ambition, my unexpressed rage." -Eve
"Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken." -Eve
Just some stuff I liked and wanted to keep.
-talking about her mother.
"We have to be funny. Fat girls give the best head. Don't we, Eve? We work harder to keep our men. Fat girls always swallow." Bernice, an african american teenage camper.
"My stomach is America."
-Eve
"What I can't believe is that someone like me, a radical femenist for nearly thirty years, could spend this much time thinking about my stomach. It has become my tormentor, my distractor; it's my most serious commited relationship." -Eve
"Maybe I identify with these women becuase I have bought into the idea that if my stomach were flat, then I would be good and I would be safe. I would be protected. I would be accepted, admired, important, loved. Maybe because for most of my life I have felt wrong, dirty, guilty, and bad, and my stomach is the carrier, the pouch for all that self hatred. Maybe because my stomach has become the repository for my sorrow, my childhood scars, my unfullfilled ambition, my unexpressed rage." -Eve
"Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken." -Eve
Just some stuff I liked and wanted to keep.