#image

But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#inspirational #pages- #inspirational

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#caught #dark #find #haunt #images

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed. ↗

— Kim Brittingham

#dieting #diets #fat #weight-loss #diet

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#distortions #irrational #like #lot #my self

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#filters #his #own #past #prism

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#beyond #both #conflicting #daddy #daughter

Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don't see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips. ↗

— Kim Brittingham

#dieting #weight-loss #diet

Then there was the realisation that I didn't actually feel that much better when I was thin(ner). In fact the 'thin' version felt worse because I lived with hunger clawing at my stomach all the time, and in fear that I was going to get fat again. After years of neuroticism I'd finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn't ignored me. As a middle-aged woman I was pretty much invisible anyway. To pass unnoticed through an image-obsessed society is surprisingly liberating. ↗

— Helen Brown

#self-esteem #thin #weight-loss #age

Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverly fashioned a survival mechanism that pulled me back from the edge of insanity. – a young MacGuyver of angst and junk food. ↗

— Kim Brittingham

#dieting #food #food-additction #mental-health #diet