"There's a significant overlap in values that you'll see in someone who's committed to an eating disorder and someone who's committed to being a good Marine: a level of competition, a level of bodily self-denial, and the belief that self-mastery comes in the form of physical prowess."
"My gender was so aggressively [judged], I was sexualized from the first day, and that never really ended until the last day I left the Marine Corps."
"The story in Hollow [is] I feel within my own body that I am inherently weak, and over the years of writing it, I was actively working on cultivating this new story of my body, which is actually I'm really strong and I'm very much capable of holding this younger self that ... didn't have that sense of value and self-worth and strength."
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