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Quotes About Thinness

Nevertheless, although they were thinner then the thinnest vapour, yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.
~ Margaret Cavendish
Because of the thinness of fashionable gowns, it was estimated that at least eighteen thousand women dropped dead of cold during the English winters.
~ Marion Chesney
Padeci tais fomes que só não morri porque a morte não me encontrou, tão magro que estava.
~ Mia Couto
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
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
~ Naomi Wolf