Quotes by Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can’t quite handle attachments to humans.

Animal

Attachment

Thinking

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women’s bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

Air

Girl

School

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture’s primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They’re immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

Communication

Culture

Levels

Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.

Dog

Might

Way

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

Glasses

Light

Wine

Cats … are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Cat

Children

Four

Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don’t understand the word “No.” They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of perpetual entitlement, they will jump up and insinuate themselves wherever they please–on your lap, on your newspaper, on your computer keyboard–and they really couldn’t care less how their behavior affects the people in their lives. I’ve had boyfriends like this; who needs such behavior in a housepet?

Cat

Needs

People

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Consumerism

Emotional

Void

Cottage cheese is one of our culture’s most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

Culture

Labels

Self

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Desire

Wish

Wonder

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Acceptance

Addiction

Air

Alas

Alcohol

Animal

Attachment

Cat

Chaotic

Children

Clear

Coffee

Communication

Consumerism

Culture

Degrees

Desire

Disappoint

Dog

Drinking

Emotional

Fantasy

Fear

Flaws

Found

Four

Friday

Girl

Giving

Glasses

Healthy

Heart

Inspirational

Integrity

Jobs

Labels

Land

Levels

Light

Long

Lost

Lovely

Mean

Merry

Might

Milk

Mind

Missing

Mistake

Mother

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Quotes by Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can’t quite handle attachments to humans.

Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.

Cats … are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Cottage cheese is one of our culture’s most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

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