“Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the w...”

“Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.”

“Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.”

“On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way...”

“One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.”

“I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to repr...”

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when youre so ugly on the inside?”

“You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.”

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”

“The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.”

“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.”

“It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be ...”

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

“Where wealth and status are concerned, shit isnt supposed to be hard. Ivies are known for grade inflationthough there is a lot of work, the reward for a mediocre job at completing it is still usual...”