“It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. — David Zinczenko Copy Share Image
I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system.… — Calista Flockhart Copy Share Image
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't. — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
