21 Quotes by Brittany Gibbons

Instead, I realized that people are allowed to say whatever they want to me about my weight, but it’s entirely up to me how much power I let those words have over me. I’m not obligated or required to accept negative commentary about my looks. I’m not less confident or honest for ignoring that it’s there. I’m just confident enough to know it’s not true.

Being heavy and wanted was a completely new concept; it never dawned on me that I had a say in all this, or that I had the right to be picky about who I allowed access to my body. I was just thankful someone, anyone, had wanted it.

We aren’t fetishes or last resorts, but we were being treated that way in the media.

The reality was my life wasn’t miserable because I was curvy; I was miserable because I thought I’d be happier if I were thinner.

I just happen to put my words on the Internet because it’s the twentieth century and I’ve forgotten how to hold pencils.

I banned the use of fat as a slur hurled toward myself and strangers. I’m not saying I don’t see fat; saying that is akin to the people who make grand statements about ‘not seeing color.’ Seeing color doesn’t mean you’re a racist. It means your eyes work, but that you are hopefully able to see color not for a discrepancy in normal, but as a beautiful component of diversity.

Seeing color doesn’t mean you’re a racist. It means your eyes work, but that you are hopefully able to see color not for a discrepancy in normal, but as a beautiful component of diversity.

You don’t get to legislate the parameters of my confidence. I get to feel good about myself because I am a person; my size has nothing to do with it. IN.

Just remember this: college is the most expensive place to be confused in the whole entire world.