Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I'm not one of those women with a really thin body. I have body fat.

Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'

People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

Everyone has a different body shape, so you kind of have to figure out not only what works best for your body type, but what also makes you feel confident. Even if everyone thinks you look good in a bikini, and you don't feel good in it, you're not going to be at your best. If you feel great in a bikini, you can always work it.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

I think in today's world we've discovered what works, silhouette-wise. A body's a body.

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

'Skinny' is only one body type.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.

A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.

Hey, I'm big-boned.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

People can say I'm fat but I know my own body. I always look big because I'm bigger built - I've got that Wayne Rooney type of body.

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

Not fat, just not anorexic. She's soft in all the right places.

I'm not fat. I'm fluffy!

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.