Awkward Silences


I'm a walking contridiction.
I'm growing, changing, learning who I am and who I want to be. I'm trying. I'm a wife, slave-in-training, animal lover, budding masochist, avid reader, real-life child and mother. I'm a big tree hugger. I try to use my voice for those who can't, help where I can, and play the devil's advocate too often for most people. I'm sarcastic, ambitious, paranoid, sensitive, loving, caring, dedicated, lazy, stubborn, happy, faithful, and perpetually curious. And the world goes on.

Ask me anything

30th December 2011

‘Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.
I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain. I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’
‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’
What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!
I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
— J.K. Rowling (via ikissprincecharming)

Source: fistfullofweasley

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