"The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive,"

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Source : "Why The Dangerous ‘Thigh Gap’ Trend Makes Me Mad" by Robyn Lawley, www.thedailybeast.com. October 28, 2013.

Robyn Lawley

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“You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.”
“Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.”

Source : A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
“I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not whether you are. He is worrying about whether you think well of him, not whether he thinks well of you. The way to be yourself ... is to forget yourself.”
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.”
“From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.”
“In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.”
“All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.”

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