Fat Quotes

“it has been my repeated observation that to put a name to a sexual attraction to fat is to invite being called a fetishist. The idea of having a “fetish,” after all, seems suspicious to many people, abnormal, probably sick. Given the depth and intensity of our training to abhor and abjure fat, it also seems suspicious and abnormal and probably sick if one fails to hate it, let alone likes it in some way. This, to my way of thinking, is proof of our real fat fetish. We have created a fetish object of wrongness, of ugliness, of undesirability out of something common and generally benign. This is fetish as sympathetic magic: the thing becomes what we believe it to be, and it taints by association.”
― Hanne Blank, Fat

“Fat is an everyday thing, a bodily organ and a biochemical substance without which we would not be able to survive. It is as mundane and ubiquitous and as much a part of our nature as blood and bone. But you’d never know it by the way we talk about it, the obsession we have with getting rid of it, our conviction that it is inimical not just to a good life, but to life itself.”
― Hanne Blank, Fat