#eating

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44) ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #food #gardening #happiness #inspiration

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#ex-boyfriends #heart-broken #hypocrite #kissing #love

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter. ↗

— Chris Thrall

#chris-thrall #crystal-meth #drugs #eating-smoke #hong-kong

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman. ↗

— Stephen King

#cheating #cheating-spouse #love #woman #love

Being an architect isn't only about construction, it's about creating wide spaces with small spaces. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#architecture #build #building #construction #create

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . ↗

— Nick Cave

#cannibals #company #dining #eating #food

Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say, students' grandmothers care so much about their grandchildren that they worry themselves to death over the outcome of exams. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#dishonesty #funny #lying #death

When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true. ↗

— Cheryl Hughes

#integrity #lying #trust