Thinness Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill
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
I donâ€™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
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
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [theyâ€™re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness… — Gloria Steinem
It suddenly hit meâ€”it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. Iâ€™d spent so long hating my body that I didnâ€™t… — Jessica Ortner
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
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
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. — Susie Orbach
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. — David Zinczenko
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — ZoÃ« Heller
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
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
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
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
Gold to airy thinness beat. — Cassandra Clare
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
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
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: