Darlene Cates Quotes

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

I've been told to be skinny before - it's already happened, but it's up to you to either listen or say no. I'm not listening.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

My fat never made me less money.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

No matter what size I am I love performing no matter how big or little I am! I feel good.

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too 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.

I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

I knew when I shot the 'She Keeps Me Warm' video that the comments were not going to be homophobic... that they would be about fat-shaming. I'm a large girl making out with somebody. I knew just that sheer fact would set people off.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

I would never be like, 'Hey, I'm fat!' or, like, be psyched if somebody calls me fat in a review.

When I describe myself as fat to people, whether it's a driver, anywhere around the world, or a friend, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's just because I'm fat,' people are like, 'Don't say that about yourself.'

If you want to eat pizza, have the pizza. If you want to run 5 miles up a hill, cool, go run. Do whatever you want to do, but don't let the size of your body and other people's opinions about you stop you from living the life you deserve.

I don't agree with body shaming.

I think the media in general hasn't been very kind to fat women or fat people. We see so many insensitive portrayals of plus-sized people. That kind of stuff really affected me - not even necessarily the portrayal of fat people, but the absence of fat people.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.

She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.