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. — Caroline Knapp
Tags: #Girl, #Self, #Value, #CarolineKnapp, #American, #Writer
Mini who’s who:
Caroline Knapp : American Writer
Born: November 8, 1959
Died: June 3, 2002
