Judith Moore Quotes

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I hate myself because I am not beautiful. I hate myself because I am fat.

Judith Moore
From the first day she nursed as if she knew I would not offer enough. She nursed hastily, brutally, as if she suspected my body was a continent that any moment famine would overtake, where streams evaporated, locusts chittered, buzzards' shadows tarred barren hills.

Judith Moore
What people do want to write about is weight loss and how to lose it. They want to write about self-esteem and how to gain it. Fat Girl makes no claims to do either.

Judith Moore
I am a short, squat toad of a woman. My upper arms are as big as those maroon-skinned bolognas that hang from butchers' ceilings. My belly juts out. The skin on my thighs is pocked. I hate myself. I have almost always hated myself.

Judith Moore
One aspect of Fat Girl that some critics don't like is that Fat Girl (and the person who wrote it) doesn't "end" happily and happy.

Judith Moore
From the beginning, if you were a child of many chins, you learned right off to set a goofy smile on your face when boys yelled "Fat-so".

Judith Moore
Another reason I wrote Fat Girl is that few writers about fatties write that even thin girls (and women and men) can, behind their bony walls, remain fat. They weigh 110; they think they weigh 200. How this happens is that if a person's been fat and gotten thin and maybe even stayed thin, she doesn't forget she was fat.

Judith Moore