"Your body, Lilly ... Do not you see? Is the body that gave birth to the human race.
His words were against everything he preached the world in which she lived. Diets. Selflessness. An obsession with female bone instead of female flesh. The culture of youth and thinness.
of stinginess.
of disfigurement.
From Fear.
For a split second, Lilly glimpsed the truth. He saw a world so terrified by the mystical power of the woman who all she could accept was the annihilation of the very source of that power: the natural shape of the female body.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - This heart of mine
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