Quotes by : Caroline Knapp

And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and....

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text....

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans--the ability to make you feel valued just by being you--and....

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

The great anxious focus on the minutiae of appetite—on calories and portion size and what's going into....

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting....

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new....

One thing I've noticed since I quit drinking is that a person usually has two or three sets of impulses....

...lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a....