Maeve Binchy Quotes

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

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

To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

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.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

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

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

I've been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it's kind of silly to get mad about it.

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

I'm just a fat guy.

Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.

I'm OK with being called plus size, I'm OK with being called fat. If someone is shouting that I'm fat in the street in a derogatory way, then obviously I'm not OK with that, but I'm comfortable using the adjective fat to describe myself, because I am fat.

I'm not fat. I'm fluffy!

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and having boobs and hips. It's hot. I don't ever want to be size zero.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.