Rainbow Rowell Quotes

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

The majority of women in America look like me.

I'm so proud to be a real woman, a size 14 woman on the cover of a magazine like 'Ralph.' Women's publications rarely put size 14 women on the cover, let alone men's, so I'm really honoured and proud to be on the cover and representing curvy, sexy women out there.

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just because a woman has thick thighs, she is considered fat. For so long, I've been around in the modeling world and have tried to break that barrier. But I think now it's turning around.

Does any woman really just come in and say, 'I'm a plus-size woman?' Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe as a way to kind of cope with fitting into society but... I just think it's divisive.

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

Many companies and publications don't understand what it means to be body positive or what it means to be plus-size. They're just trying to capitalize on the term because it's a hot topic.

'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Paula are alternatives to what we, as plus-size women in America, have been told is our narrative, which is, you should be hating yourself or hating others for how you look.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

I'm so glad teenagers can look up to young girls and realize it's okay to be voluptuous.

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

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I pray that there will be more roles for bigger girls. I pray that the role of the love interest, the beautiful, sexy girl, will be played by a plus-size woman.

My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

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.