Thinness Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
— Julie Burchill
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On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I…
— Calista Flockhart
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I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners who own older…
— Walt Mossberg
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
— John Donne
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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness…
— Gloria Steinem
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It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t…
— Jessica Ortner
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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional…
— Roxane Gay
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We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
— Susie Orbach
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Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
— David Zinczenko
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When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
— Zoë Heller
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Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.…
— John Donne
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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
— Naomi Wolf
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Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls…
— Mary Pipher
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I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion…
— Stephen King
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Gold to airy thinness beat.
— Cassandra Clare
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A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political…
— Naomi Wolf
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If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others -…
— Marya Hornbacher
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For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John…
— John Updike
Who Wrote These Thinness Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Thinness Quotes as follows: