Hilary Mantel Quotes

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

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

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

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

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.

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

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

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

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

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

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

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

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.

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.'

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.

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

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

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.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.