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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quotes

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“Writing a novel — you alone in a room with your own thoughts — might be the only way to get a maximal kind of satisfaction from your creative efforts. All the other ways can break your heart.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It
Tagged: Creative Control, writing a novel, Writing
“Goop’s ethic was this: that having beautiful things sometimes costs money; finding beautiful things was sometimes a result of an immense privilege; but a lack of that privilege didn’t mean you shouldn’t have those things.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow
Tagged: Business, Goop, beauty, Wellness, Gwyneth Paltrow
“I am 41, I would say. I am 41 and accomplished and a beloved wife and a good mother and a hard worker and a contributor to society and I am learning how to eat a goddamned raisin. How did this all go so wrong for me?”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
Tagged: Oprah, Dieting, Wellness, Health, food, Weight, Weight Watchers International, Oprah Winfrey, nutrition, US, Biggest Loser
“Novels are complex. Novels are absorbing. Novels have an interiority that TV can’t touch. Novels are comfortable with the basic human fact that people don’t really change. And, what’s more, with a novel comes an expenditure of effort.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It
Tagged: Novels vs. TV, Books vs. TV, Literature and Media, Media
“Weight isn’t neutral. A woman’s body isn’t neutral. A woman’s body is everyone’s business but her own. Even in our attempts to free one another, we were still trying to tell one another what to want and what to do. It is terrible to tell people to try to be thinner; it is also terrible to tell them that wanting to lose weight is hopeless and wrong.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
Tagged: Dieting, Wellness, Health, food, Weight, Weight Watchers International, Oprah Winfrey, nutrition, US, Biggest Loser
“About two years ago, I decided to yield to what every statistic I knew was telling me and stop trying to lose weight at all. I decided to stop dieting, but when I did, I realized I couldn’t. I didn’t know what or how to eat. I couldn’t fathom planning my food without thinking first about its ability to help or hinder a weight-loss effort.”
— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
Tagged: Oprah, Weight Watchers, Dieting, Wellness, Health, food, Weight, Weight Watchers International, Oprah Winfrey, nutrition, US, Biggest Loser
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