Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.


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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the bl...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military op...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large an...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a ...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
MERCY OTIS WARREN
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has da...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
MERCY OTIS WARREN
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of t...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian ...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain,...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings o...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True.
HARRISON GRAY OTIS
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN
[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can'...
OTIS Y. CHANDLER
As we clean up and restore these homes, it would lessen the involvement necessary by the Camden Poli...
REV OTIS SCOTT
Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.
DR. J. OTIS YODER
Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom...
DR. J. OTIS YODER
How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land b...
DR. J. OTIS YODER