Good thing Quote by Lindy West

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“We do not stigmatize people with stomach flu. The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.”

— Lindy West

“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

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

“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