Robin Lord Taylor Quotes

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

I weighed 84 pounds when I was 14. I was an easy target for the other kids.

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I was not a cool kid. There was no reason for me to be marginalised. I was just a nerd. I was kind of weird, and I found solace in video games.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.

I was considered chubby as a teen.