Happy Fat Quotes

“We constantly have to reach an impossible standard in order to just be taken a little bit seriously, and you can't help but wonder if it's all a trick. If we are meant to be too busy applying lipstick to get involved with polictics, business decisions and activisim.”
― Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

“I had a few brightly coloured dresses in my cupboard–they were for whenever I would lose all the weight. Something so fancy and pretty belonged to Thin Sofie. In the same way as you would not bother washing an old, dirty car that you were going to replace soon anyway, I made sure that all my money and energy went into Thin Sofie.”
― Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

“It is worth weighing up your words and maintaining a general awareness of what you say, when you say it, and around whom it is being said.”
― Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

“My therapist once told me that the most dangerous thing you can do to a person is to ignore them.”
― Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

“There was a plus-size clothing store selling everything from tent-like ponchos for fat people, to tent-like ponchos for fat people–with tassels.”
― Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You