It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with….

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV..

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

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

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!.

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 peo….

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

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty..

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

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a Uni….

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow ….

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

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..

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are..

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so d….

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat peopl….

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 cou….

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because ….

fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clot….