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"Fat' is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain... I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? 'You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!' 'Well,' I said, slightly nonplussed, 'the last time you saw me I'd just had a baby.'
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fat
girls
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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dead
fat
fed
starving
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Emily Dickinson |
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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.
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cruelty
dumb
fat
god
lazy
love
pleasure
weak
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George Saunders |
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"I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him."
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dragon
fat
humor
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Naomi Novik |
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Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.
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fat
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Caroline Kettlewell |
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Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.
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fat
humor
sight
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George R.R. Martin |
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I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.
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fat
muscle
weight
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John Swartzwelder |
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She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
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fat
laugh
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Edith Wharton |
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In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.
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direct
fat
intentions
simplistic
slow
virtue
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Tim O'Brien |
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Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.
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amazed
blood
chicago
fat
grease
leon
made
pork
seventy-five
tick
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John Scalzi |
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Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.
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fat
sweet-valley
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Francine Pascal |
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Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.
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fat
middle-age
rabbit-angstrom
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John Updike |
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Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.
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compliment
duck
fat
flattery
lovely
pregnancy
pregnant
waddle
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Robin Hobb |
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She was proud of her build, which was in accordance with the old Botswana ideas of beauty, and she would not pander to the modern idea of slenderness. That was an importation from elsewhere, and it was simply wrong. How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the household--the pots and pans and buckets of water? And how could a thin woman comfort a man? It would be very awkward for a man to share his bed with a person who was all angles and bone, whereas a traditionally built lady would be like an extra pillow on which a man coming home tired from his work might rest his weary head. To do all that you needed a bit of bulk, and thin people simply did not have that.
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beauty
fat
slender
thin-people
traditional-beauty
traditionally-built
womans-beauty
womans-body
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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"Explain this," Sarah said. "Anorexics think they're fat, right? Then why don't the rest of us think we're skinny?" Lard snorted. "Cosmic injustice." Alice looked up from braiding her hair. "Don't believe everything you think." "I once had a shrink give me a piece of string and ask me to guess the size of my waist," Nicole said. "Then she measured me. I'd guessed my middle was fifteen inches smaller than it was."
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fat
group-therapy
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Sherry Shahan |
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Jack hit the floor and fired off push-ups until he thought he'd pass out. The spinning behind his eyes felt good. He'd gotten by with a half grapefruit (35 calories) at breakfast, because his mom was such an emotional wreck before driving him to the hospital. She didn't argue over the half cup of oatmeal (110 calories), which he dumped in the sink before polishing off the last of his red M&Ms, his go-to food when life got sucky.
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body-image
eating-disorders
fat
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Sherry Shahan |