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There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: About Actively Agitation Altogether Becomes Chronic Dismiss Easy Even Familiar Female Feminine Hunger Kind Out Participating Particular Tune Wants You

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I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Against Club Compare Fat Feel Gained Great Health How Immediate Impulse Locker Locker Room Measuring Other Room Scrutiny Self Thighs Thin Toward Walk Weight

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I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Business Collective Compared Falling Getting Go Group Having Intake Levels Lunch Monitoring Noticed Oh Order Please Pray Restaurant Restraint Salad Which Without Women You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 8th, 1959

Died: June 3rd, 2002

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