#mm

Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#jenny-holzer #food

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#community #each #great #held #holds

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#communication #film #good #requires #screenwriter

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#believe #commits #good #problems #process

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#immaterial #nature #once #see #sex

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#best #better #community #help #i

I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented. ↗

— David Geffen

#i #killed #never #sammy #talented

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#alcohol #beverage #closely #committed #communities

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#come #common #fear #foreign #foreign languages

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel. ↗

— John Boehner

#commitment #democracy #freedom #israel #just