#surgery

Then the long nights, that were also days, in the hospital. And the long blanks, that were also nights. Needles, and angled glass rods to suck water through. Needles, and curious enamel wedges slid under your middle. Needles, and - needles and needles and needles. Like swarms of persistent mosquitoes with unbreakable drills. The way a pincushion feels, if it could feel. Or the target of a porcupine. Or a case of not just momentary but permanently endured static electricity after you scuff across a woolen rug and then put your finger on a light switch. Even food was a needle - a jab into a vein... ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#needles #recovery #surgery #food

I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#anna #back #classes #combine #could

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#federal #federal government #government #just #modification

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#always #behaviour #doing #entertainment #hopefully

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#had #i #i wish #know #like

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#elephant #hollywood #like #living #living room

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#surgery #undergo

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#because #definitely #go #going #had

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#any #because #bodies #feel #feel good