I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

It’s all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her “Health”: if public discourse were really concerned with women’s health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

I’d like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor

Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that’s what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing...

Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.