Fat Liberation Quotes

I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.

Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.

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.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

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

Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'