Susie Orbach Quotes

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susie Orbach

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• Fat

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• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Family
  • Movie
  • You

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

  B. B. King
  • Die
  • Heaven
  • Go

• It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Country
  • View
  • Conservative

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• Music has always been really important to me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Music
  • Important
  • Me

• If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Water
  • Positive

• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Help
  • Child

• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • Night
  • Change

• I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Family
  • She
  • Father

• Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Up
  • Growing

• Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Friend
  • Pet

• Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Art
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

  

  Miranda July
  • People
  • Difference
  • Involved

• Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

  

  Susie Orbach
  • Criticism
  • Size
  • Fat