Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes category contempt criticism
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies. Susie Orbach bodyfacsimileinhabit Change image and share on social
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative. Susie Orbach conventionalcurrentideological share on social
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable. Susie Orbach bodybolstercapable Change image and share on social
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote. Alice Paul contemptextremegovernment Change image and share on social
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. Malcolm Cowley badbookconsiderate Change image and share on social
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. George Gaylord Simpson categorydarwinevidence Change image and share on social