Quote by John Larkin

“Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle…

— Adele Griffen

“Being fat was traumatic, but the food was amazing.”

— Jennette Fulda

“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest,…

— Harriet Brown

“Don’t make me weight, as I’m skinny on time.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I wish I was as thin as I was when I thought I was fat.”

— Fridge magnet

“I'd always thought the skinny little twerp was anorexic. But apparently what she needed wasn't a sandwich, as I'd often muttered as we left…

— Jesse Petersen

“I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology.”

— Jennifer Egan

Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?

— James Patterson

“Obese people have really begun to eat up a lot of my free time. That’s the skinny on my life.”

— Jarod Kintz

“.. and I was a really fat kid, and that's why I do this to myself.”

— Adrienne Maria Vrettos

“That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.”

— Roxane Gay

“I'm only afraid of getting fat.”

— Stephanie Grant