Dervla Kirwan Quotes

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

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

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

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.

Women are 'expected' to have skinny waists yet still be voluptuous. People surrounding us tell us we need to eat but then look at us in disgust if we cross the invisible line of overeating.

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

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

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 had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

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.

Never guess a woman's age. Never guess a woman's weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she's due.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning.

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

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

Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.

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.

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

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.