Susan Bordo Quotes

#1. Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

Susan Griffin

#2. The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused ... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

Evan Harris

#3. All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us.

Indra Sinha

#4. The truth is that a woman who chooses not to have children has generally engaged the question of a mother's responsibilities to a degree of seriousness not previously explored when motherhood was simply a natural necessity.

Elisabeth Badinter

#5. Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

Susan Bordo

#6. I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

Kristina Schroder

#7. The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Harlan Coben

#8. Ignatius, what's all this trash on the floor?"
"That is my worldview that you see. It still must be incorporated into a whole, so be careful where you step.

John Kennedy Toole

#9. I'm never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?

Josh Lanyon

#10. It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

#11. Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

Greg Bryk