Categories Quote by Susie Orbach

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely…

— Julie Burchill

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

— Julie Burchill

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

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin…

— Walter Kirn

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

— Mary Pipher

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your…

— Albert Ellis

“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

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

— Susie Orbach

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

— Camryn Manheim

“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