Susie Orbach Quotes

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

The concept of plus-size is so derogatory and weird. What does that mean? Plus the normal size? It shouldn't exist any more.

I think that when you use the word 'plus-size,' you're putting all these women in a category: 'You don't eat well.' 'You don't work out.' 'You could care less about your body.' 'You're insecure.' 'You have no confidence.'

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

Everyone has to realize that body-shaming can happen at any size.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.

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

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

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

I think that some of the biggest surprises I've had early on, actually to this day, are all the misconceptions about my body and my health. There are so many people who think that being a plus-size model, that there's something wrong with it, or that I must be unhealthy or that I'm promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.

Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six. It's very hard for a large group of women to maintain a thinness which is, after all, only natural to a few people.

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

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.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

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.

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

Weight having become politicised, anyone with a profile in the media who either subscribes to or departs from the template of tininess implicitly represents a constituency, whether they want to or not.

I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.