“I think about the thousand ways that the women in my family were silently (and sometimes outright) expected to give up their lives, their dreams, and their desires, so that they could become the glorified babysitters for the men in their lives who wanted a legacy but none of the responsibility of child-rearing.” FeminismWomanhoodFatphobia Book:You Have the Right to Remain Fat Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“My life wouldn't be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn't obsessed with oppressing me because I'm fat. The solution to a problem like bigotry is not to do everything in our power to accommodate the bigotry. It is to get rid of the bigotry.” FeminismDiscriminationFatFat StudiesFat LiberationFat Activism Book:You Have the Right to Remain Fat Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“Any future that doesn't center the eradication of oppression and collective freedom is not a future worth imagining.” FeminismActivismIntersectionalityFatphobia Book:You Have the Right to Remain Fat Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours.” FreedomFeminismActivismFatphobia Book:You Have the Right to Remain Fat Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat