History Quote by George Eliot

“Not all fat, ugly. Why? Are all slender, beautiful?”

— Roque Cole

“Instead of killing herself, I wondered, could a person just shrink and crumple until she became nothing, until her traits and quirks wasted along…

— Elaine Beale

“She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot.”

— Miranda Liasson

“Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected.”

— Robin Jones Gunn

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The damage to her body, the wear and the weariness, were all products of conscious, determined choices made by a girl she hadn’t been…

— James S.A. Corey

“But she wasn't a little girl, she was a beautiful woman, tall and lovely, with tresses of black hair that curved like cupped hands…

— Justin Cronin

“She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts – an illusion…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and…

— Roxane Gay

“She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as I have…

— Charles Dickens

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens