“Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to ...” — Robin Marantz Henig Quote

“Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.”

“For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.”

“Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.”

“I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.”

“I'd personally like to see more 'real bodies' in magazines.”

“We all know the difference between sports entertainment and the combat sports that I call, but at the end of the day, they are all spawned from the same source, and there's a lot of mutual respect between the two bodies.”