Cancer-quotes Quote by Don Santo

Body shaming is really bad and I'm glad that people have actually started coming forth and speaking about it.

— Zareen Khan

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

— Susie Orbach

“My body is a political battlefield. It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair,…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and…

— Golda Poretsky

“We now experience the daily need to defend our self-concepts rather than our bodies.”

— Michael A. Singer

“In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.”

— Milton Mayer

“There’s an adrenaline rush that comes with denying the common rules of society: that I should always be trying to lose weight, that I…

— Virgie Tovar

“Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a…

— Maureen Murdock

“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded…

— Golda Poretsky

“Many hesitate to even start an open discussion that could awaken the people, knowing they must be prepared to face online trolls who constantly…

— E. Ravago

“Let's be honest about the "war on obesity." It's a war on people with a particular body type, funded by diet companies.”

— Golda Poretsky

“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided. People…

— Roxane Gay