Roxane Gay Quotes

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.

I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.

Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

If someone calls you fat and you are fat, then it will be hurtful only if you feel you should not be fat.

A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.

I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.

I think that when you use the word 'plus-size,' you're putting all these women in a category: 'You don't eat well.' 'You don't work out.' 'You could care less about your body.' 'You're insecure.' 'You have no confidence.'