Quotes tagged ‘thin’

“Love lesson number one million and one! The line between love and hate is thin as hell.”

— Nick Kroll, Walter the Lovebug (voice), Brandon Kyle Goodman, imdb.com

“f there's one thing working in witness protection has taught me it's that people hate change. Oh, we all say we want to change; get thinner, quit smoking, learn to speak Portuguese, but we don't. For better or worse, our habits define us. We turn the pages of the same tattered script over and over,…”

— Matt Ward, David Maples, Mary Shannon, Mary McCormack, imdb.com

“'Thin Thighs For Your Man.' But I don't like men with thin thighs.”

— Rachelle Romberg, Glenn Eichler, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com

“There's something about Shania Twain I just don't trust. I don't know, I can't put my finger...she's just too thin. I like my country singers to have the big hair and the big ass.”

— Kathy Griffin, en.wikiquote.org

“When you raise women to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws, rather than our power and potential;…”

— Lindy West, theguardian.com

“The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. Don’t let fiction tell you what to do. In the omnidirectional orgy gardens of Vlaxnoid, no one cares about your arm flab.”

— Lindy West, theguardian.com

“You can never be too rich or too thin.”

— Wallis Simpson, oxfordreference.com

“By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”

— Issey Miyake, lovetheghost.tumblr.com

“I still feel the stress over ‘Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?’ It’s an ongoing source of shame for me.”

— Anne Hathaway, therichest.com

“Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“I am here to tell you that you are more than your body. You are more than a number or a measurement. Your life means more than the number on the scale, or your GPA, or the calories you ate, or the number of Instagram likes on your most recent picture.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“[On anorexia] Everything things becomes scary and you avoid everything until there is nothing left. You starve until you are barely there anymore. Your bones and organs and still alive but your soul and heart are dead. You are existing, but not living.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“The reality of anorexia is lonely.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“Living in a world where thinness is seen as a trophy of success, it is hard for many people to see why living in the depths of an eating disorder is awful.”

— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com

“Starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.”

— Alyson Noël, amazon.com

“There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.”

— Maddy Malhotra, amazon.com

“The 'thin' version felt worse because I lived with hunger clawing at my stomach all the time, and in fear that I was going to get fat again. After years of neuroticism I'd finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn't ignored me.”

— Helen Brown, amazon.com

“I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?”

— Camryn Manheim, amazon.com

“That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble…”

— Dawn French, amazon.com

“Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she'd cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online—but I believed that anyone who said such things had never tasted chili-cheese fries with melted cheddar, fresh ground beef, and Tapati…”

— Nenia Campbell, amazon.com