Slenderness Quotes

“Very thin ladies, any age, with hand sewing on them, have always frightened me, beginning with a rich great-aunt and her underwear embroidered by nuns. The more bones that show on women the more inferior I feel.”
― Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

“Being slender is undoubtedly elegant but neurotic self-obsession is not. - Madame Dariaux”
― Kathleen Tessaro, Elegance