13 Quotes by Claire Hennessy

I don’t think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn’t. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you’re not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.

Also, I think shutting down discussions in the way that’s suggested here is actually potentially more dangerous. Someone who’s really interested will just look on the internet. It’s like porn. The stuff you stumble across is much worse.

In the world, when someone looks at a person like Julia they think weak. They think lazy. They see the fat and they know exactly how she got that way. Even the most politically-correct individual knows it deep down, but bites their tongue in public. We all know what it means, to be fat, to fail.

And then Julia’s thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control.