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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.