Body Talk Quotes

“In the capitalist system, young people are a target market - a group of potential consumers. For consumers to buy a product, they must first believe they need it. And if those products are bodies, consumers must first be made to feel that their own bodies are not enough.”
― Eugene Grant, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

“Sometimes I wish I could tell my younger self that. That it didn't matter. That the body I had then carried me up hills at Cross Country meets and through the water during the painful last lap at a swim meet, and that it should be celebrated instead of being picked away at and filled with hunger pangs.
I should have gotten both the popcorn and the box of candy at the movies that night, instead of slipping away at a Diet Coke from the concession stand.”
― Tyra Banks, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

“When we think of interdependence, we often think about relationships with people and with communities. Giving and receiving help from friends, neighbors, and family link us all together. As my body has changed, I have become more dependent on objects and have grown to appreciate them as part of this complex infrastructure that facilitates my survival.”
― Kelly Jensen, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

“Accessible design is not ubiquitous, though, and despite governmental regulations (which differ from country to country and from city to city), it’s not a standard of physical or digital experiences. More often than not, the bare minimum is done to meet requirements.”
― Kelly Jensen, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

“I did just what society asked of me: I tried to show the world my ability and denied myself my disability.”
― Kelly Jensen, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

“Bodies aren’t simply biological. They are radical tools. They are physical and political. They impact our mental well”
― Kelly Jensen, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

“In a poem my best friend wrote in high school, she called the discolored line down my back the point where an "angel's wings threaten to burst through." I think about that a lot. How the things we so easily label as blemishes or shame inducing or worthy of hiding turn into something beautiful when looked at through the lens of the people who love us. The most important thing I've learned from this entire experience is that all those things we sometimes don't like about ourselves truly can be seen as beautiful or unique or strong or wonderful if we love ourselves enough when I look at them”
― Rachael Lippincott, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy