Kathy Freston American self-help writer
Source: Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (2011), p. 242
“Nothing more shameless is than Appetite,
Who still, whatever anguish load our breast,
Makes us remember in our own despite
Both food and drink.”
VII. 216–218 (tr. P. S. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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