Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached. Kim Chernin More Quotes by Kim Chernin More Quotes From Kim Chernin a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. Kim Chernin obsessed emotional body Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest. Kim Chernin able may country Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be. Kim Chernin weight athlete moving I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother. Kim Chernin daughter losing mother Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions. Kim Chernin giving-up long lying it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day. Kim Chernin issues fashion art It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture. Kim Chernin outsiders vision culture Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do. Kim Chernin wish way thinking
