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Quotes tagged “Bodies”

“My body was just bigger. It shouldn’t have made my life that different.”
— Marquisele Mercedes, Fat Girls of Color Grow Up Too Fast
Tagged: fat, Bodies, racism, Growing Up, Stories
“Eilish’s goal isn’t celebration of her body, but rather to ignore it entirely and make her audience focus on her voice.”
— Scaachi Koul, Billie Eilish Isn’t Brave. She’s Normal.
Tagged: Billie Eilish, Bravery, Body Image, Bodies, Body Neutrality
“This discomfort with strangers is nearly behind me.”
— Shannon Ashley, Too Fat For Uber
Tagged: Uber, Weight, Bodies
“I won’t exactly look like the Hulk — maybe more like Superman after having a few Chipotle burritos — but it’s possible that I’ll require alterations nonetheless. And as per my contract, if I do, I’ll bear full financial responsibility for them.”
— E.J. Dickson, For Wedding Dresses, Truly Binding Contracts
Tagged: Weddings, Bodies, Body Image, Weight, Fashion
“These physiological changes may then lay the groundwork for our brains to start considering our uncomfortable surroundings.”
— Lila Reynolds, Why you're more likely to cry on an airplane
Tagged: Science, Bodies, Altitude , Crying, Airplanes, Air Travel, Crying Is Okay Probably , Mile Cry Club , Hypoxia
“Everything you eat seems to make some disease worse, right? Except, of course, kale.”
— Yvette D'Entremont, Diet Coke is not killing you
Tagged: Diet Coke, Coke, soda, Bodies, Health, Health and Wellness
“I still don't know what fashion really is, and maybe that's the point. Maybe what fashion is right now — and what it was before — matter less than what it can be, and we need to be paying attention to the people who are defining that.”
— Amanda Richards, Here's What It's Like to Work In An Industry That Kind of Hates You
Tagged: Fashion, Fashion Industry, Plus-size, Being Plus-Sized, Bodies, Body Image
“For women, the baby-making machine is typically first to go.”
— Samantha Lefave, Will a Keto Diet Mess With Your Period?
Tagged: Keto, Ketogenic Diet, Diets, Bodies, Health, Health and Wellness
“There’s no doubt: If I wrote down everything that would be better if I lose weight, the list would be as long as the Old Testament. If I wrote down everything that might get worse, it wouldn’t fill up an index card. But this is why people buy insurance—to hedge against unlikely disasters.”
— Tommy Tomlinson, My 460-Pound Self
Tagged: Weight, weight loss, fat, Fatphobia, Bodies
“It's hard to be positive about your body; oftentimes, not because you hate yourself in any way, shape or form but because the world hates you.”
— Roxane Gay, The importance of boundaries, the complexities of “body positivity” and what it’s like working with Channing Tatum
Tagged: Bodies, Body Image, Fatphobia, Opinions, Roxane Gay
“It costs exactly zero dollars to be kind to new people at your gym who might already be uncomfortable just being there.”
— Maya Kosoff, Don't Be an Asshole to New Year's Resolutioners at Your Gym
Tagged: New Year's Resolutions, weight loss, Weight, Body Image, Bodies, Don't Be A Dick Okay?
“It’s the day to gather with your family and friends ‘round the hearth, warm beverages and sweet treats at the ready, and have a hearty chortle over the things America stuck inside itself and couldn’t remove without the help of trained medical personnel.”
— Barry Petchesky, What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
Tagged: Weird, Weird Weird Weird, Bodies, Medical Issues, LOL, Laughing At Other People's Pain
“Fatphobia is a great selling point, but what we need to understand is that it’s only that: a selling point.”
— Kaila Prins, Here's How Fatphobia Is Being Marketed to You And Why So Many of Us Buy Into It
Tagged: Fatphobia, Bodies, Body Image
“Jude Ellis: Look, I've been dealing with the feds my whole career. This is how it works. They want a case, they take it.

Nestor Rosario: Yeah, but it's like you said, they washed up on our beach, right?

Jude Ellis: It's their beach now.”
— Jude Ellis, The Crossing, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Bodies, Feds, Law, Eminent Domain
“Jude Ellis: So, I sent my coroner to the hangar, and apparently, your men won't let him in to see the bodies. Then I come here, these guys won't let me down to the beach.

Emma Ren: I apologize. I should've given you the heads-up. I can no longer have you and your men on this site.

Jude Ellis: You can't have us? That's funny. I thought we were having you.

Emma Ren: And I need to ask you not to talk about this case with anyone.

Jude Ellis: I have a town full of people wondering what's going on down here. The press want a statement. I can't not talk to them.

Emma Ren: I understand. I will consult with my superiors and I will get you official talking points.”
— Jude Ellis, The Crossing, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Bodies, Plane Hangar, Talking Points
“Nestor Rosario: Between us, those people...what are they saying?

Jude Ellis: Nothing that makes any sense. [heavy sigh] They're storing the bodies in that plane hangar off 81. Tell Ruben to get down there, log prints, record any identifying marks.

Nestor Rosario: Sure you don't want the feds handling that?

Jude Ellis: No. They washed up on our beach.”
— Jude Ellis, The Crossing, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Bodies, Plane Hangar
“To set a fat woman in a place of dominance such as that is to throw away the stereotypical gender balance we’re accustomed to.”
— Gianluca Russo, It's About Damn Time for a Truly Great Plus-Size Rom-Com
Tagged: Rom-Com, Plus-Sized, Body, Bodies, Size Inclusivity, Body Image
“Rebecca Adler: I just want to die with a little dignity.

Dr. Gregory House: There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly. ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; we can't die with it!”
— Dr. Gregory House, House, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: dignity, Death, disease, Bodies, Walk, Vulgar, wise, Bitter Realization
“Bodies are for hookers and fat people!”
— Bender , Futurama, Season 2: When Aliens Attack
Tagged: Bodies, fat, Hookers, Sassy
“It’s as if my body, independent of me or my thoughts, is mourning the loss of the nose; the body is crying because it’s missing one of its own. Or, is it possible that my body is trying to fill the hole in my face, albeit with tearfall?”
— Steve Bean Levy, My Year Without a Nose
Tagged: cancer, Bodies, nose, Medicine, Surgeries, Health, personal

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