“No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.”

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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American journalist 1974

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Context: Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all — the whole world — had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
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