Top 34 Quotes by Camryn Manheim

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

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

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.