Fat Quote by Lolly Adefope

Fat has a range of experiences.

— Becky Albertalli

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

— Susie Orbach

The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice…

— Marilyn Wann

The general impression about fat people is that they are romantic, funny and good dancers.

— Satish Kaushik

It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the…

— Michelle Dean

Fat people are so full of themselves.

— Nikhil Saluja

Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be…

— Roxane Gay

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

— Jo Brand

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort…

— Jennifer Armintrout

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to…

— David Satcher

“I sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud and often.…

— Lindy West

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those…

— Susie Orbach