First things Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She was struck by how mostly slim white people got off at the stops in Manhattan and, as the train went further into Brooklyn,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order…

— Haven Kimmel

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

— Susie Orbach

“Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified.”

— Mary Pipher

“There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.”

— Laura Wiess

“Life lesson 1, never tell a woman she's fat.”

— John Hankins

“Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a…

— Robyn Silverman

“The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when they smile,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Even at that young age, I understood that to be fat was to be undesirable to men, to be beneath their contempt, and I…

— Roxane Gay

I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an…

— Caitlin Moran

“...she judged frivolous reading to be as unhealthy as sweets and pastries...”

— Marcel Proust

“The proof that the One Stone Solution is political lies in what women feel when they eat 'too much': guilt. Why should guilt be…

— Naomi Wolf