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Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Actually Another Balance Desires Engage Happen Intricate Just Math Off Own Personal Split Superb Traded Variety Weighed Which Women Women Are

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My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Always Around Bliss Companion Consists Crossword Dog Episode Friday Friday Night Homicide Human New New York New York Times Night Oriented Puzzle Recipe Some Sundays Time Times Tow Walks Woods York

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When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Amazing Flaws How Love Overlook Somebody Something Willing You

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You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Friend New Oh Photograph Pictures Puppy Reach Say Wallet Will You Your

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I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: About Different Different Ways Dog Gratifying Happens Having Intense Learn Love Mine Most Relationship Single Way Ways

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What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: About Better Beyond Body Body Image Does Doing Dressed Drive Eating Ever Exactly Feeling Food Image Jacket Like Look Might Other Prettier She Think Thinking Thinner Wearing Who

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Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Appear Cases Caution Cheese Cottage Culture Dairy Honestly Labels Most Our Self-Denial Substance Symbols Visible Warning Would

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These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Add Allure Anything Behind Big Cake Calories Feelings Five Hundred Piece Self-Esteem Shallow Simple Subtract Them Vain Well-Being

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Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Beauty Body Control Entitlement Impulses Lose Love Mastery Needs Over Paramount Risk Self-Esteem Sexuality Size

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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Against Conflicting Desire Desires Eat Food Indulge Makes Nervous Restrain Small Thin Up Wish Woman Wonder

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 8th, 1959

Died: June 3rd, 2002

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