Quotes About Life-size

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

The postman handed over a stack of letters, along with a box with a clear cellophane window, through which Robin saw a life-size and very realistic plastic fetus. The legend across the top read: It Is Legal To Murder Me. "Oh God, that's horrible," said Robin.

And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of.

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.