Figure Quote by Twiggy

“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…

— Jessica Ortner

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come…

— Andie MacDowell

“For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks.”

— Truman Capote

Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness…

— John Donne

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness…

— John Donne

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

— H. L. Mencken

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move,…

— John Donne

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…

— Walt Mossberg

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

— David Zinczenko

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent…

— Naomi Wolf

“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the…

— Susan Sontag

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

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...kids marked by the special thinness that one has only once, the transparent thinness of early maturity, when, without knowing it, you are immortal.…

— Andrea Lee

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,…

— Roxane Gay