Caroline Knapp Quotes
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
Topics
Self-Control
Self Esteem
Sexuality
Beauty
Desirability
Entitlement
Impulse, Impulses, Inpulsiveness
Physical Appearance
Physical Fitness
Self Confidence
Self Discipline
Self-Image
Self-Respect
Self Worth
Body Image
Self-Acceptance
Self-Love
Love, Romance
Body Control
Healthy Habits
Physical Beauty
Citations
Knapp, Caroline. Appetites: Why Women Want. Counterpoint, 2003, p. 43.
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Caroline Knapp was an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir Drinking: A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism. She was the daughter of noted psychiatrist Peter H. Knapp, who was a researcher of psychosomatic medicine.