Judith Moore Quotations

I hate myself because I am not beautiful.

Narrators of first-person claptrap like this often greet the reader at the door with moist hugs and complaisant kisses. I won't. I will not endear myself.

I believed that inside every fat person was a hole the size of the world; I believed that every fat person wanted to fill that hole by eating the world. It wasn't enough to eat food. You had to swallow air, you had to chew up everyone who got near you. No wonder, I thought, that nobody liked me or liked me all that much.

Everything we own tells too much about us.

I hate myself because I am not beautiful. I hate myself because I am fat.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.