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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e2c5b3 | why I mark my body like this, about what it means to have at least some measure of control over my skin. Here, in the middle of my life, I would do things differently if I had to d | Roxane Gay | ||
| c4b121d | There is something about the gaunt faces and sharply angled bodies of anorexic girls that at once attracts and repulses me. I wonder what holds their bodies together. I envy the way their flesh is stretched taut against their brittle bones. I envy the way their clothes hang listlessly from their bodies, as if they aren't even being worn but, rather, floating--a veritable vestment halo rewarding their thinness. The reporter speaks with disda.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| b919161 | More often than not, I feel hopeless. I give up. I cannot overcome myself, my body, these hundreds of pounds shrouding my body. It is easier, I think, to be miserable, to remain mired in self-loathing. I don't hate myself the way society expects me to until I have a bad day and then I do hate myself. I disgust myself. I cannot stand my weakness, my inertia, my inability to overcome my past, to overcome my body. This hopelessness is paralyz.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| e8bffe5 | The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost. | Roxane Gay | ||
| c8bb1a5 | If I died, I would leave people behind who would struggle with my loss. I finally recognized that I matter to the people in my life and that I have a responsibility to matter to myself and take care of myself so they don't have to lose me before my time, so I can have more time. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 69ebf4e | Writing this book is the most difficult thing I've ever done. To lay myself so vulnerable has not been an easy thing. To face myself and what living in my body has been like has not been an easy thing, but I wrote this book because it felt necessary. In writing this memoir of my body, in telling you these truths about my body, I am sharing my truth and mine alone. I understand if that truth is not something you want to hear. The truth makes.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 2f11e3d | Rather than solve the real problems the United States is facing, some politicians, mostly conservative, have decided to try to solve the "female problem" by creating a smoke screen, reintroducing abortion and, more inexplicably, birth control into a national debate. Women have been forced underground for contraception and pregnancy termination before, and we will go underground again if we have to. We will risk our lives if these politician.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| ab8f022 | It's okay if most of your friends are guys, but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, soul search a little. | lift-each-other-up | Roxane Gay | |
| 47e1722 | He said/she said is why so many victims (or survivors, if you prefer that terminology) don't come forward. All too often, what "he said" matters more, so we just swallow the truth. We swallow it, and more often than not, that truth turns rancid. It spreads through the body like an infection. It becomes depression or addiction or obsession or some other physical manifestation of the silence of what she would have said, needed to say, couldn'.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| b25021d | When I read, I could forget. I could be anywhere in the world except in the eighth grade, lonely and holding tightly to my secret. I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally. At home, I tried to be the good girl my parents thought me to be, but it was exhausting. On so many occasions, I wanted to tell them something was wrong, that I was dying inside, but I couldn't find the words. I couldn't find a way .. | Roxane Gay | ||
| d509843 | Food was the only place of solace. Alone, in my apartment, I could soothe myself with food. Food didn't judge me or demand anything from me. When I ate, I did not have to be anything but myself. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 5394bbb | My family's concern became a constant chorus of nagging, always well intended, but mostly a reminder of how I was a failure in the most basic of my human responsibilities--maintaining my body. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 2d96cf3 | I hate my body. I hate my weakness at being unable to control my body. I hate how I feel in my body. I hate how people see my body. I hate how people stare at my body, treat my body, comment on my body. I hate equating my self-worth with the state of my body and how difficult it is to overcome this equation. I hate how hard it is to accept my human frailties. I hate that I am letting down so many women when I cannot embrace my body at any s.. | Roxane Gay | ||
| d7436c5 | I am no stranger to dieting. I understand that, in general, to lose weight you need to eat less and move more. I can diet with reasonable success for months at a time. I restrict my calories and keep track of everything I eat. When I first started dieting under my parents' supervision, I would do this in paper journals. In this modern age, I use an app on my phone. I recognize that, despite what certain weight-loss system commercials would .. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 98a666a | Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 524578e | I've experienced having you in the house. It's like living with a loud motor running all the time. Up, down, into this room and that room, eating supper, jumping from the table, cursing all the time, yelling over the telephone about things, laughing, making deals all the time. You take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise." She" | Jane Smiley | ||
| 81aed2e | Persuasion is often more effectual than force. | Aesop | ||
| 512e315 | Look at this sunset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. | James Clavell | ||
| df7b2c8 | They're wise in China. There the first of a dynasty's always a peasant or the son of a peasant, and the throne's always taken by force with bloody hands. No hereditary caste there--isn't that China's strength? | James Clavell | ||
| cbeb26b | Their souls touch and I seem to be more aware of God because of it. | James Clavell | ||
| a7d4f86 | Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas--that's what's right! | free-trade seas tariffs | James Clavell | |
| b2f4fc0 | Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth. | life-and-death shogun | James Clavell | |
| 7b81a92 | Yabu-san's a violent man with no scruples whatsoever. He honors nothing but his own interests. Duty, loyalty, tradition, mean nothing to him. His mind has flashes of great cunning, even brilliance. He's equally dangerous as ally or enemy.' 'All commendable virtues. What's to be said against him?' 'A | James Clavell | ||
| b889533 | Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle. | pinnacle real | James Clavell | |
| b4fac38 | Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn't it? They spill so much of other people's blood. | fallibility leader | James Clavell | |
| 359b5c3 | The Legacy began: "The duty of a lord of a province is to give peace and security to the people and does not consist of shedding luster on his ancestors or working for the prosperity of his descendants...." One" | James Clavell | ||
| 41124fc | don't wear | James Clavell | ||
| d9607a8 | The time be gone forever when the like of me's to suck thy arse 'cause of a poxy title which like as not were gifted first to a king's whore, a king's bastard, or buyed by knife in a king's back. | James Clavell | ||
| 50aa120 | Christianity is a religion. Not a political ideology. | James Clavell | ||
| 7cbaf13 | A wise man prepares for treachery. | James Clavell | ||
| ea6ccf8 | Who knows what tomorrow will bring Tomorrow is in the hands of God Tomorrow will be a lovely day. | James Clavell | ||
| 4148aed | You can find friends in manure, sometimes, my son. | James Clavell | ||
| fc492ab | There can only be one Tai-Pan. | James Clavell | ||
| 37acd31 | What is pain to a man? A privilege! | pain privilege | James Clavell | |
| 4c7b5bc | When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult. | James Clavell | ||
| 6ec51a5 | his mind docketing the important things for future transcription. | James Clavell | ||
| 143e12f | Beyond the castle walls, the city lay in almost total darkness. Above, the moon was pallid and misted. It was a brooding, darkling night. And, it seemed to him, doom walked the heavens. | James Clavell | ||
| caaa06d | There is no escape now. For anyone.' 'Be patient. The sun has not yet set.' 'I have no confidence in this sun, Mariko-san.' He reached out and touched her face. 'Gomen nasai. | James Clavell | ||
| 9e98d42 | It is sometimes wise to be abstract. | James Clavell | ||
| 101e22d | Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing. | James Clavell | ||
| 2c500d0 | For a woman, old age is never pretty. | James Clavell | ||
| 6a8d2f4 | It is not wise to notice another man's woman. | James Clavell | ||
| cb70ddd | You must be patient before you criticize. | James Clavell | ||
| b92716c | The meeting of the Council after the gai-jin had departed, for once, had been happy and filled with laughter at the enemy's loss of face, | James Clavell |