“You can't fix a problem by targeting its victims. Even if you hate fat people with all your heart, if you actually… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Airlines have no incentive to fix this problem until we, collectively, as a society, demand it. We don’t insist on a solution… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“There are entire blogs devoted to hating fat people on planes—describing their supposed transgressions and physical particulars in grotesque, gleeful detail, posting… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Airlines have no incentive to fix this problem until we, collectively, as a society, demand it. We don't insist on a solution… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“If you really want change to happen, if you really want to 'help' fat people, you need to understand that shaming an… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Before the day I didn't fit, this conversation was largely an abstraction for me. My stance was the same as it is… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Fat people are not here as a foil to boost your own self-esteem. Fat people are not your inspiration poem. Fat people… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
The messaging campaign that stigmatized the term feminist definitely worked on me when I was a teenager. I always believed in equality, but there's… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Honestly, this 'Where do you get your confidence?' chapter could be sixteen words long. Because there was really only one step to my body… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“I never did manage to lose weight, though - not significantly - and my minor "successes" weren't through any eating patterns that could be… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“So, what do you do when you're too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but also as… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“We do not stigmatize people with stomach flu. The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.” — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell underweight men to bulk up.… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other. — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“I hate being fat. I hate the way people look at me, or don't. I hate being a joke; I hate the disorienting limbo… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
