Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

“Sometimes you need to meet the right people at the right time. She was the right person at the wrong time.”

“Beauty is a tricky one – because you can’t blame someone for being beautiful, but you can blame the culture that created the idea of ‘ideal beauty’.”

“Of course, if a woman is thin, she will be wrong in other ways. She will be too thin, not the right shape of thin, not the right height, not have a large enough gap between her thighs – and she needs to smile more but not too much, because that would be slutty.”