Emma Woolf Quotes

#1. When I look back, I can which year it was not from events or the actual date, but the way I was feeling.

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#2. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

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#3. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

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#4. People, especially women, are judged on their bodies. And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, becomes a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and deprivation. Everywhere we look, success and sexiness and happiness seem to belong to the thin.

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#5. Are we really going to spend our whole lives like this, feeling the wrong shape and the wrong weight in the wrong skin?

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#6. No one can turn back the clock. Lie about your age if you want, but we're all going in the same direction.

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#7. Then I took a shower, unlocked the door, and set out on destroying myself.

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#8. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

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#9. Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.

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#10. When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.

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#11. Being constantly hungry is no life at all.

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