The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted Quotes

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels."

Marsha thinks about this. Then she says, "Not true."

"I know," Tom says, and sighs.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“...wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“By now I was feeling the shame but also defiance. Like here, I'm carrying the banner for all of you who cut off a little piece of cake wanting a big one, who spend a good third of your waking hours feeling bad about your desires, who infect those with whom you work and live with your judgements and pronouncements, you on the program who tally points all day long, every day, let's see, 7 for breakfast, I'm going to need only 3 or 4 for lunch, what the hell can I have for so little, oh, I know, broth and a salad with very little dressing. And broth is good! Yes! So chickeny! That's what we tell ourselves, we who cannot eat air without gaining, we who eat the asparagus longing for the potatoes au gratin, for the fettucine Alfredo, for the pecan pie. And if you're one of those who doesn't, stop right here, you are not invited to the rest of this story.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when they smile, it's like grimacing. Fat people are often miserable too, but at least they LOOK jolly even though it's really mostly them apologizing, like, "Sorry, sorry, sorry I'm offending your idea of bodily aesthetics," "Sorry I'm clogging my arteries and giving the thumbs-up to diabetes.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads to another door, which leads to another hallway. But then one day you open a door and it's to a closet. It doesn't go anywhere.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“I look in the mirror now, and even if I lost weight, there's just...Theres' nothing I can do. It's over. My bodyness. My attractiveness in my body. I can diet forever but it will never make me like I was.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“too. So you see that all my big mistake did was to make for a better party because that’s how mistakes are, they make for a kind of relaxation, at least on the part of those not making them.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation