body image Archive

  • I Don’t Know What to do With my Breasts! And I Think I’ve Experienced Some Sexism

    Although it would take a lot more life experience for the lesson to sink in, it was important to have a sense at a young age that I wouldn't settle for just any attention that came my way, to know that I would rather be alone than feel small and humiliated or like a body part that just happened to have a person attached to it.

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  • Mirror, Mirror, on the wall . . .

    My 14-year-old daughter recently said, “Mom, do you realize how many of your sentences begin with, ‘I just finished reading a book . . .’?” I paused for a moment, thinking about her question, and then realized-somewhat sheepishly-that she was right. So, in order to […]

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  • I’m Not Fancy

    ; “At fifty, every man has the face he deserves.   To erase the lines and change the contours of one’s face is a way of obliterating one’s history.” –George Orwell ; When Kennedy was about 9, I started a mother/daughter book club. At the […]

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