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A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
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myth
feminism
feminist
diet
fad
control
food
obedience
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Naomi Wolf |
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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.
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carnivore
carnivores
slaughter
diet
meat
health
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George Bernard Shaw |
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"Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?"
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humorous
diet
tyson
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Rick Riordan |
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"The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain once it has been turned into homogeneous and assimilable substances, which potentially have the "same nature", as the molecules of the brain"
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diet
you-are-what-you-eat
thought
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Antonio Gramsci |
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[to BAJAZETH] Soft sir, you must be dieted, too much eating will make you surfeit. So it would my lord, specially having so smal a walke, and so litle exercise.
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exercise
diet
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Christopher Marlowe |
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He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.
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rabbit-angstrom
nuts
diet
junk-food
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John Updike |