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Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

— Susie Orbach

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

— Naomi Wolf

The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?

— Twiggy

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

— Lisanne Falk

Fashion hasn't changed enough yet. There's too much a stereotype of beauty.

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

— George Bernard Shaw

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

— Jane Austen

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

— Mario Testino

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly.

— Julie Klausner

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

— Alber Elbaz

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

— Cybill Shepherd