Ronaldo Quotes

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

I think that people put a lot of worth into looks. Unfortunately, there's a standard that so many people look up to that is unrealistic for everyone's body type.

I don't think what size I am really matters.

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

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

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

I don't think what I look like is relevant.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

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

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.