Susan Orlean

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

American Journalist

Jerry Lewis

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

American Comedian

Coco Austin

My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.

American Actress

Jane Kaczmarek

LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

Sissy Spacek

In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life.

Mary Daly

Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

American Theologian

Judith Viorst

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

American Author

Marilyn Monroe

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Bruce McCulloch

No, they're nice guys. They wear girdles, but they're nice guys.

Canadian Actor

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

American Athlete

Historically, girdles were common fashion accessories and signified femininity.

Fashion Accessory

Today, girdles are less common and often replaced by more modern shapewear.

Modern Usage

The word 'girdle' can be used metaphorically to describe something tightly encircling something else.

Metaphoric Use

Using 'girdle' as a verb suggests the action of securing something firmly.

Action of Securing

The verb 'girdle' often implies getting ready for action or a challenge.

Preparation

In biology, a girdle is critical to the evolution of limb-based movement in vertebrates.

Biology and Evolution

The girdles have medical importance, often involved in musculoskeletal conditions.

Medical Significance

Girdling is a deliberate agricultural technique, not just accidental damage to trees.

Agricultural Practice

Girdling can affect an ecosystem by changing the tree composition in forests.

Ecosystem Impact

 them I chose the skeleton with the skull that skeleton went back to the base of the neck there was another skeleton that started before the base of the neck and went into the back series then there was a skeleton I showed you a picture of that took from the base of the neck went through the dorsal series and out through the pelvic girdle into the tail and then we had another one that started

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 He didn't lead with his chest, which requires you lean forward. I couldn't develop the attributes in my toes, the strength in my feet, to do that. So he uses a lead that focuses on his shoulder girdle and his arm. So he can lift the woman to break her, for example.

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 in a move to rival a contortionist it passes strands of silk behind itself creating a girdle to support it through the change to come with anchor and line secure the transformation can take place