“Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.” FeelsBodyFeltGrowing UpGrowingEmbraceFeminineInsecure Author:Hope Solo
“As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.” KindBodyHateGrowsGrowing UpGreedAll KindsExposedPeanutsErode Author:Frederick Lenz
“I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.” KindHardBodyLanguageGrowing UpGrowingHard TimesAwkwardBody Language Author:Analeigh Tipton
“You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.” TryingBodyReligionGrowsGrowing UpSymbolsVisualsImagery Author:Robert Gober
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.” MenYearsSelfBodyPainSufferingFatherLiteratureGrowsGrowing UpImagineMouthsAbuseBasesDown AndSilentTerrorLegsTraumaYour BodyHorribleImagine ThatPassiveFemininityAnother ManCoveringUnspeakableSuffering And Pain Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.” BodyRunningGrowing UpGrowingBasketballConsciousTrackRanAthleticVolleyballCountrysidePuerto RicoRicoAlways Running Author:Joan Smalls