“I once told a woman that I don't eat cake 'cause it goes right to my thighs.”— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Isn’t that weird how you never see a fat kid eat? We always do it in private, as if we are fooling anyone. How sad.”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com
“I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'”— Richard Simmons, abcnews.go.com
“People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family. My father said something years ago: 'Know no strangers.' Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody?”— Richard Simmons, abcnews.go.com
“How do you know your girlfriend is getting fat? She fits into your wife's clothes.”— w3rt, reddit.com
“Jeannie is a very attractive woman. She's very thin, and I know I look like I have two wives and I ate one of them.”— Jim Gaffigan, npr.org
“What you need to know is that my life is split in two, cleaved not so neatly. There is the before and the after. Before I gained weight. After I gained weight. Before I was raped. After I was raped.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“The cultural measure for obesity often seems to be anyone who appears to be larger than a size 6, or anyone whose body doesn't naturally cater to the male gaze, or anyone with cellulite on her thighs.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“The world would be a much nicer place if you got fat from being an asshole instead of eating food.”— okraebop, reddit.com
“There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.”— Maddy Malhotra, amazon.com
“The 'thin' version felt worse because I lived with hunger clawing at my stomach all the time, and in fear that I was going to get fat again. After years of neuroticism I'd finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn't ignored me.”— Helen Brown, amazon.com
“I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?”— Camryn Manheim, amazon.com
“Ginika told her that ‘fat’ in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like ‘stupid’ or ‘bastard,’ and not a mere description liked ‘short’ or ‘tall.’ So, she had banished the word ‘fat’ from her vocabulary…She said the word ‘fat’ slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“It's too bad we're not all teddy bears. More stuffing would only make us cuter and cuddlier.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“'Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”— J.K. Rowling, books.google.com