Elisabeth Bromberg

“I am hyperconscious of how I take up space and I resent having to be this way, so when people around me aren't mindful of how they take up space, I feel pure rage . . . The ease with which they take up space feels spiteful and personal.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Intellectually, I do not equate thinness with happiness. I could wake up thin tomorrow and I would still carry the same baggage I have been hauling around for almost thirty years. I would still bear the scar tissue of many of those years as a fat person in a cruel world.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body