Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.
If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.
When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.
I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.
I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.