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Hunger Quotes

“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“In my teens and early twenties, I often went clothes shopping with my mother and I could always see her dismay at where I am forced to shop. I could notice that she wished her daughter had a different body. I could see her humiliation and frustration. I harbored no tiny amount of frustration, or ire, for her words, for her disappointment in me, for my inability to be a excellent daughter, for one more thing I couldn't have – the simple pleasure of having playfulness while shopping with my mother.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“We were three hours from Chicago, so my blackness was less of a curiosity, more of a threat. And there were the black students on campus, the nerve of them, daring to pursue higher teaching. In the local newspaper, residents wrote angry letters about a new criminal element--the scourge of youth

Hunger Quotes

“I have tried to make peace with this body. I possess tried to love or at least tolerate this body in a planet that displays nothing but contempt for it.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I often inform my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I earn, the more I perceive that life is generally the pursuit of desires. We want and desire and oh how we want. We hunger.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as challenges? Why do we see someone setting a limit and then experiment to push?”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies appreciate mine are ignored or dismissed or derided.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“To be obvious, the fat acceptance movement is important, affirming, and profoundly necessary, but I also believe that part of fat acceptance is accepting that

Hunger Quotes

“But I also like myself, my personality, my weirdness, my instinct of humor, my wild and dense romantic streak, how I love, how I write, my kindness and my mean streak. It is only now, in my forties, that I am able to own up that I love myself, even though I am nagged by this suspicion that I shouldn't. For so lengthy, I gave in to my ng. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how I live and love and reflect and see the world. But then, I got older and I cared less about what other people reflect. I got older and realized I was exhausted by all my self-loathing and that I was hating myself, in part, because I assumed that's what other people expected from me, as if my self-hatred was the price I needed to pay for living in an overweight body. It was much, much easier to just try and seal out all of the noise, and to try and forgive myself for the mistakes I made in upper school and college and throughout my twenties, to acquire some empathy for why I made those mistakes.”
&#; Roxane Lgbtq+, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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“I loved the escape of writing those stories, of imagining lives that were other from my own. I had a ferocious imagination. I was a daydreamer and I resented creature pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living. In my stories, I could write myself the friends I did not have. I could produce so many things achievable that I did not dare imagine for myself. I could be valiant. I could be bright. I could be humorous. I could be everything I ever wanted. When I wrote, it was so easy to be happy.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks favor self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of behavior, choices I’m making where I’m trying too hard, giving too much, reaching too intently for being right when right is what someone else wants me to be. It’s scary, though, trying to be yourself and hoping yourself is enough. It’s scary believing that you, as you are, could never be enough.”
&#; Roxane Gay,