Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for lon…

- Kim Chernin

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

- Kim Chernin

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

- Kim Chernin

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

- Kim Chernin

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded …

- Kim Chernin

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or…

- Kim Chernin

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

- Kim Chernin

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

- Kim Chernin

Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with…

- Kim Chernin