Some people say the business about the jolly fat person is a myth, that all of us chubbies are neurotic, sick, sad people. I disag...ree. Fat people may not be chortling all day long, but they're a hell of a lot nicer than the wizened and shriveled. Thin people turn surly, mean and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot fudge sundae for easing tension. Thin people don't like gooey soft things because they themselves are neither gooey nor soft. They are crunchy and dull, like carrots. They go straight to the heart of the matter while fat people let things stay all blurry and hazy and vague, they way things actually are. Thin people want to face the truth. Fat people know there is no truth.... Thin people believe in logic. Fat people see all sides. The sides fat people see are rounded blobs, usually gray, always nebulous and truly not worth worrying about. But the thin person persists. "If you consume more calories than you burn," says one of my thin friends, "you will gain weight. It's that simple." Fat people always grin when they hear that. They know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied ab...out exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they c...halk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Work is a responsibility most adults assume, a burden at times, a complication, but also a challenge that, like children, requires... enormous energy and that holds the potential for qualitative, as well as quantitative, rewards. Isn't this the only constructive perspective for women who have no choice but to work? And isn't it a more healthy attitude for women writhing with guilt because they choose to compound the challenges of motherhood with work they enjoy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this... Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never during our marital bliss did she cause me one moment's uneasiness. Never did I have to ask, "Where have you been? What were ...you doing?" I always knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the onset of puberty can vary by as much as six years, every adolescent wants to be right on the 50-yard line, right in the ...middle of the field. One is always too tall, too short, too thin, too fat, too hairy, too clear-skinned, too early, too late. Understandably, problems of self-image are rampant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »