litewryter
Day Twenty Four
Day Twenty Four
"No wonder our ideas about the body are so distorted. Clothing is now designed to permanently squash us into (someone else's) shape: stretch denim flattening our behinds and foam-rubber miracle bras giving us homogeneously rounded barbie breasts... The ideal is static but the female body is always changing-bloating with the moon, drooping with melancholy, blossoming with love, breasts shrinking like raisins when we diet and falling to the earth the moment we suckle offspring, skin getting rough in winter and gradually damaged in the summer sun... Next time you feel yourself berating your physical appearance or obsessing over a few centimeters of plump softness, think deep into the center of your body. The strength of your continuous heartbeat over one lifetime has the power to shift a continent; the female body has the potential to both create and sustain life as well as house the profound and infinite energy of the spirit. When you think in these terms, all the focus on being a size two or a size six surely rings hollow."
-Anna Johnson
Day Twenty Four
Day Twenty Four
"No wonder our ideas about the body are so distorted. Clothing is now designed to permanently squash us into (someone else's) shape: stretch denim flattening our behinds and foam-rubber miracle bras giving us homogeneously rounded barbie breasts... The ideal is static but the female body is always changing-bloating with the moon, drooping with melancholy, blossoming with love, breasts shrinking like raisins when we diet and falling to the earth the moment we suckle offspring, skin getting rough in winter and gradually damaged in the summer sun... Next time you feel yourself berating your physical appearance or obsessing over a few centimeters of plump softness, think deep into the center of your body. The strength of your continuous heartbeat over one lifetime has the power to shift a continent; the female body has the potential to both create and sustain life as well as house the profound and infinite energy of the spirit. When you think in these terms, all the focus on being a size two or a size six surely rings hollow."
-Anna Johnson