I’m fat, but I’m thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone?
George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, London, 1939 pt. 1, ch. 3
Tag Archives: physical appearance
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Es asombrosa la cantidad de mujeres que prefieren una conversación inteligente a una musculatura sólida.
Tomás Eloy Martínez, El cantor de tango, Buenos Aires, 2004, p. 69
Deborah Rhode
Silver hair and furrowed brows allow aging men to look “distinguished.” That is not the case with aging women, who risk marginalization as “unattractive” or ridicule for efforts to pass as young. This double standard leaves women not only perpetually worried about their appearance, but also worried about worrying.
Deborah Rhode, The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law, New York, 2010, p. xv