Camryn Manheim Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.”

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

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

“On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.”

“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 people.”

“So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.”

“I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.”

“Almost everything I do is related to being fat.”

“Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.”