Jessica

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time—that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“The Washington Post reported in 1995 that Americans were “fatter than ever before,” and that one of the leading theories why was because “a decade of dieting mania has actually made people fatter.”56”
― Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

“She was fragile and even a little broken, but she would not always be this way. She would once more find her way, and one day, she would find some pleasure in living. But not today, and perhaps not tomorrow either.”
― Rachael Miles, Tempting the Earl

“That’s likely why I’m the size I am now—a couple decades of dieting,” says Substantia Jones, a photographer and fat-acceptance activist who now identifies as “a happily fat woman” but spent her youth trying to shrink her body. “Each time I would of course lose weight and then gain it back with a dividend, so I ended up bigger and bigger each time,” she says. When she finally stopped dieting and regained weight for the last time, her weight stabilized—and has not fluctuated significantly since.”
― Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating