The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.