Self Esteem / Fat
If God had wanted me to touch my toes, He would have put them on my knees.
"Bless your body always. Speak no word of condemnation about it."
~Rebecca Beard, Every Man's Search
I have the body of a god... Buddha!
My goal weight is now what my fat weight used to be.
"In recent years there has been a strong shift towards a mock-juvenile contour, with adult women offering the slim lines of young schoolgirls as a sexual attraction. By omitting the broad child-bearing hips this display suggests athletic fun and sex rather than the heavy responsibility of breeding and the establishment of the family; and by imitating the weak 'little girl' frame it also signals the subservient immaturity of the juvenile."
~Desmond Morris, Bodywatching
"Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because the bigger we are, the more space we takeup, and the more we have to be reckoned with."
~Roseanne Barr
"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
~Sa'Di
"As far as general body build is concerned, the majority of societies whose preferences in this matter are recorded feel that a plump woman is more attractive than a thin one."
~ethnographic reports from The Human Relations Area Files
"There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty."
~La Bruyere
"She was of perfect classic beauty, divinely tall, and divinely fair, magnificently serene in her movements, big-browed, gentle-eyed, with round arms and fuly modulated cures of breasts and belly... She was very grand, and as big, I swear it, as the ladies of the Erechteum. I wished to worship at her shrine."
Morton Fuller, 1894
"The physical ideal at the turn of the century was the woman with 'fascinating and beautiful curves.' The 'fine figure' was 'perfectly free from all scrawny and hollow places,'... Lucille recalled that her fashion models with 'six foot one of perfect symmetry' and 'statuesque': 'No one of them weighed under eleven stone, and several of them weighed considerably more. They were big girls with fine figures... It was the day of tall women with gracious curves.' The thin woman was given short shrift and was rudely to to 'cover some of her angles.'"
~Valerie Steele, Fashion and Eroticism
"Nipped, tucked and dieted into size-two Dolce and Gabbana, the women who violently cheat their age look attractive but anxious, like custodians vigilantly trapped inside a museum of their own beauty."
~Anna Johnson
"[in the 1860s and 1880s] Doctors urged the importance of solid weight in their growing campaign against nervousness. S. Weird Mithcel demonstrated how skinny forms correlated with discontented, nervous personalities... newspaper advertisements featured nostrums designed to help weight gain..."
~Peter N Stearns, Fat History
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."
~Author Unknown
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