[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?
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.
A culture fixation 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.
Gold to airy thinness beat.
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside. . . maybe.
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.
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.
We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
