Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Twentieth century women’s fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.