"My terms amount to cultural heresy. I had to say: I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh and loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife. I had to learn strange and delicious lessons, lessons too few women learn: to love the thump of my steps, the implication of weight and presence and taking of space, to love my body's rebellious hungers, responses to touch, to understand myself as more than a brain attached to a bundle of bones.I have to ignore the cultural cacophony that singsongs all day long, "too much, too much, too much."' -Marya Hornbacher, Wasted
My response was based around the idea of that cultural heresy, understanding yourself through your own presence in space. I guess. I find it hard to put into words.... I think the quote says it better than I do.
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