173 Quotes by Jami Attenberg


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    I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

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    I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

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    There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

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    When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

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    When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

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    Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

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    Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

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    There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

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