Fat Acceptance Quotes

“The reality was my life wasn't miserable because I was curvy; I was miserable because I thought I'd be happier if I were thinner.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion – A Hilarious Memoir and Self-Help Guide for Curvy Women on Body Image and Style

“One thing I say about Farrakhan and Alice Walker they help me like being black. I wish I wasn't fat but I am. Maybe one day I like that too, who knows.”
― Sapphire, Push

“The way your body looks and is shaped has never been the problem. You owe society nothing. You are allowed to focus on your health without any sort of aesthetic reasoning. Fitness has no size. We've just been conditioned to believe that it does.”
― Meg Boggs, Fitness for Every Body: Strong, Confident, and Empowered at Any Size

“This movement... understands that accessibility and disability justice are central to body justice, and that failing to make the movement accessible means failing to make the movement.”
― Aubrey Gordon, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat