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Sarai Walker

Dietland

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  • Carla Christine Bruus Aagaard-Strubehas quoted7 years ago
    The trauma of becoming a woman
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    Pretending to be interested in a display of blushers, I picked up a compact of pink powder. I had always associated blushing with shame and embarrassment.
  • Ida Deichmann Madsenhas quoted7 years ago
    was fat, and if I no longer saw it as a bad thing, then the weapon they had used against me lost its power.
  • iamcatherainhas quoted3 years ago
    All makeup is drag
  • Marina Prokopetshas quoted4 years ago
    with the laces undone
  • Bárbara Conejeroshas quoted4 years ago
    From the time we’re little girls, we’re taught to fear the bad man who might get us. We’re terrified of being raped, abused, even killed by the bad man, but the problem is, you can’t tell the good ones from the bad ones, so you have to be wary of them all.
  • Bárbara Conejeroshas quoted4 years ago
    “You’ll grieve for her,” Verena said, “and then you’ll move on.”
  • Nora de la Cruzhas quoted4 years ago
    couldn’t stand hunger. Hunger is what death must feel like.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    An early and important source of inspiration for Dietland was Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s novel and the film adaptation directed by David Fincher. I would like to think that Dietland would exist even if Fight Club hadn’t provided that initial spark of an idea, but I’ll never know
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    The Virginia Woolf line “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality” appears in her essay “Professions for Women.”
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