fat

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38bbe6a	"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.'	j-k-rowling girls fat	J.K. Rowling
4c0c61d	Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.	fed starving dead fat	Emily Dickinson
030eaf9	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.	weak god love cruelty dumb lazy fat pleasure	George Saunders
4a8b201	"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."	humor dragon fat	Naomi Novik
f24cee4	Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.	fat	Caroline Kettlewell
25bceb6	Jon: Have you seen the wall? \| Sam: I'm fat, not blind.	humor sight fat	George R.R. Martin
f67b844	I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.	muscle weight fat	John Swartzwelder
49426dc	She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.	laugh fat	Edith Wharton
3dc8089	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.	virtue direct simplistic slow intentions fat	Tim O'Brien
3b9e4a5	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.	amazed leon seventy-five tick pork made grease chicago blood fat	John Scalzi
693cce2	Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.	sweet-valley fat	Francine Pascal
4697bb4	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.	rabbit-angstrom middle-age fat	John Updike
d9b4deb	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.	lovely duck pregnancy pregnant waddle flattery compliment fat	Robin Hobb
47eaea5	"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."	group-therapy fat	Sherry Shahan
7bab79b	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.	slender thin-people traditional-beauty traditionally-built womans-beauty womans-body beauty fat	Alexander McCall Smith
8ce8366	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.	body-image eating-disorders fat	Sherry Shahan

38bbe6a

"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.'

j-k-rowling girls fat

J.K. Rowling

4c0c61d

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

fed starving dead fat

Emily Dickinson

030eaf9

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.

weak god love cruelty dumb lazy fat pleasure

George Saunders

4a8b201

"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."

humor dragon fat

Naomi Novik

f24cee4

Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.

fat

Caroline Kettlewell

25bceb6

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

humor sight fat

George R.R. Martin

f67b844

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

muscle weight fat

John Swartzwelder

49426dc

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

laugh fat

Edith Wharton

3dc8089

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.

virtue direct simplistic slow intentions fat

Tim O'Brien

3b9e4a5

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.

amazed leon seventy-five tick pork made grease chicago blood fat

John Scalzi

693cce2

Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.

sweet-valley fat

Francine Pascal

4697bb4

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.

rabbit-angstrom middle-age fat

John Updike

d9b4deb

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.

lovely duck pregnancy pregnant waddle flattery compliment fat

Robin Hobb

47eaea5

"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."

group-therapy fat

Sherry Shahan

7bab79b

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.

slender thin-people traditional-beauty traditionally-built womans-beauty womans-body beauty fat

Alexander McCall Smith

8ce8366

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.

body-image eating-disorders fat

Sherry Shahan