Perspective Plus discussion

I feel it is time that we have a place for empowering quotes that show the positive side of being fabulously fat!

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy

"A fat woman is a quilt for the winter." -Punjabi proverb

"Size matters not." - Yoda (Empire Strikes Back)

"Whoo-hoo! Look at that blubber fly!"- Homer Simpson

“There’s a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.”
- Kirstie Alley

“You’re either too fat or too thin. You just can’t win.”
- Natalie Imbruglia



“When we lose twenty pounds…we may be losing the best twenty pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”
- Woody Allen

“I’ve always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.”
- Camryn Manheim

“I was really tired of words like ‘plus size’, ‘round’ and ‘large’. I thought, ‘come on we’re fat’.”
- Kirstie Alley


“If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush!”
- Dawn French

"She's beautiful." - Amy Adams as Giselle in "Enchanted" after seeing a Venus of Willedorf style statue.

"Once you go big, you NEVER go twig!" - Tiffany, TLC's "Big Sexy"

"Big people have NO reason for shame!"


“If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
― Anonymous


"We are so much more than we think.” - Anonymous

"I'm not fat. I'm just easy to see." t-shirt

"Fat people are harder to kidnap!" t-shirt

"Being fat is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, it can be very handy. You always have a personal flotation device handy in case of a crash." - Kim F.

"I'm not over weight. I'm just nine inches too short."- Shelly Winters

"Women are vital and beautiful at all weights and sizes. There is NO one way we are supposed to be, although the world will tell us every day that we only have one option. That is not true." - Kathy Najimy

"Never compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best YOU can do." -fortune cookie

"I want everyone to stop judging others, stop hating and realize we are all beautiful in our own ways. We shouldn't have to answer to anyone who thinks otherwise. Therefore, we musn't all be the same kind of person. I want everyone to just be themselves and tell anyone who says otherwise to screw off." - Mia Tyler

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain

"Sex kittens don't get fat. They get fluffy" - Cyrinda Foxe

"Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you." - Davey Hawok of AFI

"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louis Hay

"I used to look in the mirror and feel shame. I look at myself in the mirror now and absolutely love myself." - Drew Barrymore

"life isn't about finding yourself. It's about CREATING yourself." - Mia Tyler

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go where there is no path...and leave a trail." - fortune cookie

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." - Helen Keller

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller


"I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that did not work." - Thomas Edison

"We need to stop listening to the voices of the past."

-unknown

"The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is a little 'umph!' " -unknown

"Things that are the same are equal to each other." -Euclid

"We are only as weak as our greatest fears." - unknown

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might."- Lao Tzu

"Who wants a twig when you can climb the whole damn tree?" --"Big,Blonde and Beautiful" Maybelle's number from "Hairspray the Musical"