“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”

Marya Hornbacher

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“We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.”

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