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1 " I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the "friends" who'd sent me those pictures. (I'm very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.) "
― Gabourey Sidibe , This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
2 " I just assumed that at the time if I could display a talent worthy of praise. . . that I wasn't just who you thought I was, I thought I wouldn't be fat anymore. That may seem silly, I know that now. But at the time, I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself, that my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl, I wouldn't be that dark skinned girl. I'd be Gabby I'd be human "
3 " I refuse to be anyone’s survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner. "
4 " I was born a cynical, suspicious, forty-five-year-old divorcée "
5 " Don’t let anyone else take away your joy. If they don’t want to be with you or around you, let them go. Pick up your shit and keep going. You came into the world by yourself, and the next person’s lungs don’t help you breathe. "
6 " My beauty doesn't come from a mirror. Never has and never will. "
7 " we are genuinely discussing how we envision ourselves fighting off an attack. Really, it’s something that all mothers and daughters should discuss. The same way that all fathers and sons should discuss why no one should ever be raped in the first place. "
8 " Google needs to mind her damn business! "
9 " Did this bitch not know I was being sarcastic? I hate that sarcasm is hard to convey in a text. There should be a special font for sarcasm so people can tell when I’m being an asshole. "
10 " (Adulthood is all about waiting to take your pants off.) "
11 " A woman who doesn’t apologize for her very existence on Earth is rare, and that’s what I wanted for myself. "
12 " I don’t think it’s funny when a stranger calls me a fat bitch no matter what they’re offering to do for me. I don’t think it’s funny that I’m not allowed to say that my feelings are hurt. Feelings aren’t an absence of strength. "
13 " It seems as though if I cured cancer and won a Nobel Prize someone would say, “Sure, cancer sucks and I’m glad there’s a cure, but her body is just disgusting. She needs to spend less time in the science lab and more time in the gym! "
14 " I knw that babies stare at me cuz they're curious or whatever, but I still kinda want to fight them. #RudeAssBaby "
15 " Feelings aren’t an absence of strength. I know this for sure. So why should I pretend to have a sense of humor just to allow someone else to take a shot at me? "
16 " Money changes people. It changed the way my family saw me. It changed how they interacted with me. Perhaps more than it changed them, it changed how I saw them as well. "
17 " Somehow, with all the gifts, dinners, and the left-behind checkbook, I’ve handicapped my family. "
18 " But I didn’t feel honored. I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the “friends” who’d sent me those pictures. (I’m very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.) "
19 " You keep your horrible boyfriend around because you feel like shit, and he’s the only one around who agrees with you. He validates the part of you that thinks you deserve bad things instead of good things. When you start believing that you deserve good things, you’ll dump him because he won’t fit anymore. But for now, he treats you like shit because that’s what you want. "
20 " Perhaps I had to change my idea of what an insult sounds like. "
