Best Fatphobia Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see. But now it's awkward.”

Wishing Fatness Fatphobia Dysmorphia Sizeism When Will My Reflection Show

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Or how cornmeal was better than flour because it had weight, and having weight is how you know your worth, so don't let anyone tell you different.”

Food Weight Cooking Diet Fat Fatphobia Fatphobic

Book:Other Birds

Source: Other Birds

“Some [fat people], I believe, would willingly submit to even a violent remedy, so that an immediate benefit could be produced...”

Health Fatphobia Effects Of Fatphobia On Health

Book:Letter on Corpulence

Source: Letter on Corpulence

“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.”

Feminism Womanhood Fatphobia

Book:You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat

“Some of these people will act like their condemnation is in your best interest”

Feminism Shame Homophobia Fatphobia

Book:The Intimacy Experiment

Source: The Intimacy Experiment

“You can tell a lot about what a culture considers deformed by looking at its villains. They're more likely to be disabled in some way, but also more likely to be dark, old, fat, or fey.”

Culture Racism Bigotry Homophobia Villains Ableism Fatphobia

Book:Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“For a while, the rise of sociopolitical discourse both online and in physical spaces felt like slowly breaking these boundaries down one by one: we started to teach each other that everything we knew about gender, or being fat, or poor, or chronically ill, was decided by a system that had no intention of caring for us. But then the fear of being too much slowly began to reinfect all of our minds. We began to second-guess our ability to change the world, so settled with self-optimising instead.”

Sexism Homophobia Ableism Systemic Change Fatphobia Social Barriers

Book:Poor Little Sick Girls: A Love Letter to Unacceptable Women

Source: Poor Little Sick Girls: A Love Letter to Unacceptable Women

“As though if I could make my body fit on one of these tiny barstools, I'd be in a perfect, fulfilling relationship instead of forcing myself to get through this date, wishing I could just disappear. Of course I know that none of that is true. That I can't change my body type (and don't even want to!), that thin women are no more happy than I am, that these insecurities are seeded and tended in my brain by the weight-loss industry, which profits from our collective self-loathing to the tune of $70 billion each year-despite the fact the 97% of diets fail. (Side note: What if we put all that money towards solving actual health problems instead? Could we cure ovarian cancer, like, tomorrow?) I know all these things, but tonight, I just can't feel them”

Reality Tv Plus Size Fatphobia Bachelor

Book:One to Watch

Source: One to Watch

“Please tell me people who look like us can be loved. Please tell me people who look like us can be desired. Please tell me people who look like us can have happy endings.”

Love Spoiler Alert Fatphobia Fat Shaming Olivia Dade Fat Stigma

Book:Spoiler Alert

Source: Spoiler Alert

“What might change if we simply minded our body's business, and thought about other people's less?”

Bodies Fatphobia Mind Your Business

Book:Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul – Poignant Essays on Fat, Black Women and Cultural Expectations

Source: Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul – Poignant Essays on Fat, Black Women and Cultural Expectations

“It was funny, she thought, that people treated her flesh like a public resource, a reservoir for all their insecurities and emotional dysfunction, when it was she who had their insides at her fingertips.”

Weight Size Irony Fatness Fatphobia Fat Liberation

Book:Manhunt

Source: Manhunt

“Any future that doesn't center the eradication of oppression and collective freedom is not a future worth imagining.”

Feminism Activism Intersectionality Fatphobia

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.”

Freedom Feminism Activism Fatphobia

Book:You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat