“Women hold the pen to history's and herstory's narrative. Let's rewrite it with courage and conviction.”
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman in distress, always of interest to a certain kind of man.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“He understood why Brad thought he was disrespectful to women, but it was actually the opposite. Kyle respected women so much that he would never subject one to the turmoil of a relationship with him.”
Source: The Do-Over
“Darlene told me that the hormones women have in them when they've got PMS, men have in them all the time," says Myrna.
"That would account for world leaders," says Leonie.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“At times, it can feel like the loneliest place on Earth, because it’s just us. Alone with our unanswered prayers”
Source: Waiting with God: 31 Days to Finding Answers for Unanswered Prayers
“Eating disordered patients often grow up in families that place an inordinate amount of importance upon bodily appearance, including weight, and focus upon particular parts of the body: protruding tummies, thunder thighs, and tree-trunk legs. We see these same pathogenic qualities in much of the advertising that is directed toward women and girls.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“When eating disordered symptoms arise in men, Schoen (ibid.) writes, they may signal difficulty integrating dependency needs into a masculine identification. Sands (2003) notes that men are more likely to express disavowed needs and wants through projections onto others - witness the preponderance of compulsive sexual behaviors in men - whereas women are more likely to use their own bodies to contain disavowed desires.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“The capacity to think about, to reflect upon, difficult feelings is what allows us to forego expressing them in more problematic ways, such as, for patients with eating disorders, through a binge, or a purge, or food restriction.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“If there is one commonality between patients with eating disorders, perhaps it is that there is disharmony in the link between body and mind. This can manifest in various ways such as, for example, the “false bodies" described in a later chapter.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction