Hanne Blank quotes
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“There is no wrong way to have a body.”
-- Hanne BlankSource : Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press
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“We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.”
-- Hanne BlankSource : Hanne Blank (2012). “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”, p.18, Beacon Press
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“The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.”
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“The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.”
-- Hanne BlankSource : Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press
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“And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases they are demonstrably affected or directed by culture and socialization. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.”
-- Hanne BlankSource : Hanne Blank (2012). “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”, p.18, Beacon Press
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“Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.”
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“Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.”
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“You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world for other people. You're here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.”
-- Hanne BlankSource : Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.63, Ten Speed Press
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“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”
Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.
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Source : "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". Book by Adrienne Barbeau, 2006.
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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