Quotes from Susan Bordo

all historical fiction is really contemporary fiction; you write out of your own time.44

We must display a boundless capacity to capitulate to desire and indulge in impulse; we must hunger for constant and immediate satisfaction

in an age when most people get their history from TV and movies, we are losing our collective sense of "what really happened.

explain how Anne's moles could

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.