Camryn Manheim Quotes

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?'

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

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

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

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

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

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

Obviously I probably have internalized fatphobia about myself and what the world has ingrained in us.

When I post a photo from a 'good angle,' I receive criticism for looking smaller and selling out. When I post photos showing my cellulite, stretch marks, and rolls, I'm accused of promoting obesity.

I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

When you're a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because - especially when you're in the public eye - you're constantly being judged.