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“I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.”
― Kathy Griffin

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“But reserving the right to do whatever you want to your own body isn’t body positivity, it’s body autonomy, and they are two different things. Body autonomy means what you do with your own body isn’t anyone else’s business, which means that anything goes, even diet culture. Body positivity is a much more specific concept based on accepting our bodies as they are and fighting against the forces that tell us we’re not supposed to. It has barriers that keep things like diet culture out, because they go against its very meaning.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“There are already millions of places to go if you want to celebrate weight loss. There are countless online spaces dedicated to dieting where you’ll be cheered on every pound of the way. You can still talk about food diaries and dropped dress sizes with 99 percent of the population. Is it really too much to ask that we preserve one space away from it? One part of our lives that diet culture can’t get its hands on? Body positivity is that space.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Kate Moss famously said that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” So I thought I’d put together a little list of things she’s obviously never tried before that taste so much better than buying into an oppressive body ideal could ever feel: Pasta, pizza, mangoes, avocados, doughnuts, peanut butter, sushi, bacon, chocolate cake, lemon cake, any cake really, blueberries, garlic bread, smoked salmon, poached eggs, apples, roast dinners, cookie dough, sweet potatoes, whipped cream, freshly squeezed orange juice, watermelon, gelato, paella, oh and cheese. You’re welcome, Kate!”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“We’ve all been made to forget one simple truth: we are allowed to eat. No matter what we ate yesterday. Regardless of whether we’ve worked out or not. At any size. Without any need to justify or repent. We are allowed to eat. And it’s about time we took that truth back.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“female hunger is not simply about food. It’s not even simply about body size. It’s about power, and liberation, and wholeness. When we refuse to be ashamed of our appetites, we send the message that we are whole beings with needs that deserve to be fulfilled.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“When we go to the beach and bare our skin, we’re not there to be visually appealing to others. We’re there to feel the sand, hear the waves, smell the salt, take in the view. We’re there to make memories. The dimples on our thighs or whether another beachgoer disapproves of our size is irrelevant. It’s not why we’re there. Being aesthetically pleasing is not the purpose of our existence.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Diets don’t just encourage disordered eating; they are disordered eating.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Obesity research is almost solely funded by the weight-loss industry. Conducting studies is expensive, and government funds don’t even begin to cover them all. Luckily, our good friend the diet industry is there to give millions to studies aiming to prove that fat is killing us, meaning that in turn their sales go through the roof as we all run, terrified, to our nearest weight-loss group.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“people who provide most of the information on health and weight are far less reliable than we think they are.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Did you know that some of the most widely held “truths” about health and weight are just plain made up? And that even when some “facts” about obesity turn out to be completely inaccurate, they’re still printed in news media and stuck in our minds as truth?”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“And if you’re thinking that 26,000 excess deaths associated with being overweight and obese seems like a lot, bear in mind that in the same year 34,000 deaths were associated with being underweight—where are the screaming headlines about that?”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Without a doubt, what the war on obesity has created the most of is stigma. It has turned fatness into the ultimate moral sin and given the public a medically motivated reason to bully, harass, and discriminate against someone based on their size.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Linda Bacon exposes some of the rarely mentioned side effects of weight-loss surgery in Health at Every Size, listing a shocking eighty-two symptoms, including lifelong vitamin deficiency, loss of bowel control, consistent vomiting and excruciating pain after eating, hormone imbalances, infection, kidney and liver failure, nerve and brain damage, and often, weight regain. Bacon cites further studies that found that 4.6 percent of bariatric surgery patients died within a year. She argues that weight-loss surgery “would be more appropriately labelled ‘high-risk disease-inducing cosmetic surgery’ than a health-enhancing procedure.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“As far as Kitty could tell, men were just as petty as women, but when they didn’t get their way, they didn’t resort to intrigues—they started wars.”
― Radha Vatsal, Murder Between the Lines

“Some people have blond hair. Some people are really good at baseball. Some people find nothing more pleasurable than organizing a drawer full of buttons. Some people are assholes. This is the human spectrum.”
― Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

“I am the boss of my underpants. You can be the boss of yours.”
― Ragen Chastain

“You are the only person who is in charge of how you feel about yourself. Nobody else can possibly do that. You get to decide if you believe you are beautiful or not, and nobody can take it away from you. If someone suggests that you aren’t beautiful, you can consider how sad it is that they have such a limited view of beauty. You can consider how unfortunate it is that they have such an exaggerated sense of self-importance that they think you should care about what they think. You can also choose to realize that it has nothing at all to do with your beauty and everything to do with their limitations.”
― Ragen Chastain

“I could say it was a pleasure to meet you, Major Channing, but I would not wish to perjure myself so early in the evening.”
― Gail Carriger, Changeless

“Considerable evidence shows that dieting—willfully eating less to lose weight—rarely works in the long run, while its unintended side effects do a lot of harm.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Just as the body needs a certain amount of sleep, the brain has a body weight range that it prefers and will defend for each individual. The brain’s weight-regulation system will maintain a stable, healthy weight for most people, if it is allowed to do its job without interference.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“If dieting has failed you, that’s not because you’re a failure but because your brain is working correctly.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“When research shows that a particular diet “works,” we need to check how long the study lasted to know whether the loss is likely to be temporary. Most diet studies last only six months, and few of them follow participants for longer than a year, due to limited funding and perhaps anxiety about documenting the long-term failure rates.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Existing studies overestimate long-term weight-loss success.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Deliberate attempts to become thinner strongly predict weight gain over the long term, even when researchers take initial weight, diet, and exercise habits into account.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“After one of my talks, a doctor told me that it felt unethical not to recommend dieting to her obese patients, but when I asked her about the ethics of prescribing a treatment with such a high failure rate, she fell silent.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Public health efforts that increased physical activity and decreased social isolation would save vastly more lives than battling the brain’s weight-regulation system.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss