Joni Edelman

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

Good news: they'll probably grow out of it. Bad news: probably not until they are 23.

Oh hey remember that time in 1804 when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had an actual duel, with actual guns and Burr shot Hamilton and Hamilton did not shoot Burr. And then the next day Hamilton died.

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

It's always so good to know the folks doing the work you're doing.

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Look, I'm not saying McDonald's did this themselves, I'm just saying, a lot of the people that work there probably agree.

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.

"She has created an important space on the internet and in the real world, a space that women and girls are free to take up however they please."