“There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.” PeopleWorldEasyQuietSafeSizeOneselfConvictionLegsFatsDisplayPlatformsSkirtsApprovedSlenderThriceShort SkirtsFat Women Book:Americanah Source: Americanah
“People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.” PeopleSeemsFightingNamesSupportQuietAngerRageNoiseFragileFragile Things Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton