Quotes About Thinness

#1. I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Julie Burchill

#2. The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

Don DeLillo

#3. For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

John Updike

#4. Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Margaret Fuller

#5. 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 late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Susan Sontag

#6. I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.

Charles Finch

#7. 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 and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

#8. A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Naomi Wolf

#9. The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.

Honore De Balzac

#10. I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.

L.E. Sterling

#11. 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 sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

#12. When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

Zoe Heller

#13. 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

#14. 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 just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

Calista Flockhart

#15. [On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?

Twiggy

#16. 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 did unnatural things to be thin.

Mary Pipher

#17. 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 were super-substantiated.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

David Zinczenko

#19. We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Susie Orbach

#20. 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 to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Stephen King

#21. No cancer, if that's what you're thinking, she'd say if anyone commented on her runway-model thinness, which she ordinarily disguised with billowing dresses or caftans. I'm just in training for the final lap around the track.

Stephen King

#22. It was a very beautiful thing, this Golden Ticket, having been made, so it seemed, from a sheet of pure gold hammered out almost to the thinness of paper. On one side of it, printed by some clever method in jet-black letters, was the invitation itself - from Mr. Wonka.

Roald Dahl

#23. 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

#24. There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away.

Wes Adamson

#25. It was a sense that reality was thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. But

Stephen King

#26. Gold to airy thinness beat.

Cassandra Clare

#27. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

Pat Conroy

#28. If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

Naomi Wolf

#29. Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Jenni Schaefer

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

H.L. Mencken

#32. To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Naomi Wolf