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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.