Obesity Quotes

Greater numbers dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those fatal instruments than the weapons of their enemies.

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Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.

Fat is the last preserve for unexamined bigotry. Fat people are lampooned without remorse or apology on television, by newspaper columnists, in cartoons, you name it.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Obesity is the commonest disease in the United States.  The aged are particularly prone to it, when one by one other physical pleasures have been outlived or denied, and there remains only the joys of the table.

A fat person is a pariah, subject to the kinds of vitriol once reserved for eighteenth-century witches.

For every pound I gained, I took one step backward, using flesh for padding.  I bubble-wrapped my heart.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

Fat is a way of saying "no" to powerlessness and self-denial.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside.  Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?