mumbled, mouthing the simple advice a thousand doctors and well-meaning friends and relatives
have given overweight women for years.
"It's not always that easy,”I said.“Everyone's different in terns of how they treat food”
Lucy looked at me, waiting for me to go on. I opened my mouth,then closed it. Should I tell her
that, in teasing a woman's weight, she's joined the long, proud tradition of critics who go after any
woman with whom they disagree by starting with "you're ugly" and ending with“no man would
want you and there must be something wrong with any man who does"?Should I tell her I didn't
cry when someone posted my picture and commented,“I'm sorry, but aren't authors who write
books marketed to young women supposed to be pretty?”
Does she need to know, now, that life isn't fair? I feel her eyes on me,waiting for an answer
I don't have. Words are my tools.Stories are my job.It's possible she'll remember what I say
forever, and I have no idea what to say.
So I tell her the only thing I can come up with that is absolutely true.I say to my daughter,
“I love you,and there is nothing you could ever do to make me not love you,But I'm disappointed in you right now. There are plenty of reasons for not liking someone.What she looks like isn't one of them.”
【2017届河北省高考英语阅读理解一轮限时训练(5)】相关文章:
★ 河南省三门峡市2014高考英语一轮(暑假)基础训练(6)附答案
★ 【三维设计】2017届高考英语(江苏专用)二轮复习阅读理解解题技法示范课件:5
★ 重庆市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮(精品)训练题(10)附答案
★ 浙江省湖州市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮(暑假)精炼(12)含答案
★ 辽宁省辽阳市2014高考英语单项选择一轮(暑假)训练(5)附答案
★ 湖南省岳阳市2014高考英语一轮单项选择训练题(9)及答案
★ 湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (73)
★ 【课堂新坐标】2017届高考英语(通用版)二轮复习短文改错专题训练:模式1 缺一词(含解析)
★ (全国通用)2014届高考英语一轮单元复习 限时强化训练二
★ 浙江省湖州市2014高考英语完形填空一轮(暑假)精炼(5)含答案
最新
2017-04-24
2017-04-24
2017-04-24
2017-04-24
2017-04-21
2017-04-21