Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism.… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“If my chair collapses under me right now, people will assume it's because I'm fat. But if your chair collapses under you,… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know it at the time, but the idea of “coming out” as fat comes up a lot in fat-acceptance circles.… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“The fact is that I’m fat because life is a snarl of physical, emotional, and cultural forces both in and out of… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
When I started tentatively dipping a toe into fat-positive internet spaces, I learned that reclaiming the term was the quickest and most… — 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
