“The one thing she’d always had, the one thing she’d hung on to in spite of everything she’d been told about herself – that she was ugly, that she was lazy, that no one would love her until she was thin, that she wasn’t a serious athlete because she was fat – was her self-respect.”

“The one thing she’d always had, the one thing she’d hung on to in spite of everything she’d been told about herself – that she was ugly, that she was lazy, that no one would love her until she was thin, that she wasn’t a serious athlete because she was fat – was her self-respect.”

— Sandhya Menon