a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.