quotes about Thinness

last updated: November 28, 2023

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
-- Susie Orbach

Source : Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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

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When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
-- ZoÃ« Heller

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“Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.”
“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”
“Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.”
“Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.”

Source : "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.
“I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.”
“The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.”

Source : "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.
“We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, speech at Southwick (Jan. 15, 1906), 1922.
“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”
“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
“I cant control everything, and I dont need to”