The statement ‘I feel fat’ is never really about fat…Each time a woman looks at her thighs and says, ‘Yuck’, she is really saying, ‘There’s something wrong with me or what I’m feeling.’ We turn our bodies into metaphors for all of our bad feelings- and we find confirmation for doing so everywhere we look.
— “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies” by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter (via myotonia) (via embraceyourbody) (via ilovefat) (via sweaterves)
