21 Caroline Knapp Quotes for You to Enjoy

Caroline Knapp

American Writer

Born: Nov 8, 1959

Died: Jun 3, 2002

Day Dog Life Love Time You

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Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. Caroline Knapp

Love You Dog Fall Universe Way Ways Rules Enter Attachment Features Rituals Colors New New Way Orbit Just Experiencing Many

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever? Caroline Knapp

Food Better Drive Feeling Think Thinking Other Exactly Wearing Prettier Dressed Eating About Like Beyond Look She Does Doing Jacket Might Body Body Image Who Ever Image Thinner

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone. Caroline Knapp

Signs Bone Caricature Strips Response Cartoon Sexuality Both Angular Cruel Ideal Also Anorexia Female Leaves Hips Cultural Place Breasts Body Flesh Away Butt Images

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget. Caroline Knapp

You Cake Psychic Before Lunch Consider Out Eating Haul Menu Open Budget Calculator Cheeseburger Intact Tinkering Order Start

When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws. Caroline Knapp

Love You Amazing Somebody Willing Something How Overlook Flaws

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation. Caroline Knapp

You Dog Pet Fluidity Relationships Way Kinds Pretty Someone Touch Claustrophobic Absent Self-Consciousness Feel Boundary Come Most Dogs Quickly Roles Lack Human Whim Acted Hard Human Relationships Fill Violation

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts. Caroline Knapp

Love You Eyes Dog Beauty Become White Every Side Fur Carries High Detail Find Small Tail Color Study She Enchanted Chest Intelligent Confident Love You Curve Either Which Lucille Her Watchful

I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine. Caroline Knapp

Love Relationship Dog Single Mine Way Ways About Having Most Learn Intense Different Happens Gratifying Different Ways

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. Caroline Knapp

Culture Cheese Dairy Honestly Our Visible Would Cases Cottage Self-Denial Most Caution Labels Substance Warning Appear Symbols

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin. Caroline Knapp

Life Time Best Game Seventh Several Horrors Features Results Always Begin Times Grade Same Little Who Many

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter. Caroline Knapp

Strength Terrorism Will Our Morale Counter Along Reaction Surely Buildings Up Effects Intended Blow Literally Hard

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always. Caroline Knapp

Time Dog Walks Recipe Consists Sundays Some Crossword Puzzle Tow New Around Bliss Always Friday Friday Night Times York Human New York New York Times Woods Episode Companion Oriented Homicide Saturdays Night

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms. Caroline Knapp

Solitude Luxurious Drawn Kind Relief Felt Always Been Pace Rhythms

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do. Caroline Knapp

Life Wait Become Older Our Everything Out More Like Concentrated Mothers Dogs Version Get Human Short Short Life Spans Us Much Human Life Fascinated Watch

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut. Caroline Knapp

Me Old Big Clothes Down Astronaut Worst Boots About Bean Self-Conscious Baggy Like Look Looked Around Makes How Very Clothing Different Heavy Sweaters Used Now

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist. Caroline Knapp

I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?' Caroline Knapp

Health Great Walk Club Other Immediate Locker Locker Room Self Weight Feel Toward How Impulse Gained Against Room Scrutiny Measuring Compare Thighs Thin Fat

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