Camryn Manheim Quotes

Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the women on the other side parading my beauty of which I was so proud? As I stood there holding my JUDGE MEAT NOT WOMEN picket sign, I recalled all the people who had said to me throughout my life, You've got such a pretty face. But they never finished the thought. The whole phrase is You've got such a pretty face, too bad you're fat. But what if I weren't fat? Would I still have attacked this Meat Parade so fiercely? The truth is, my fat has informed my politics. And while I'd like to think I would have been just as ardent in my opposition to the objectification of women had I been thin, I'll never know for sure.

~ Camryn Manheim

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

~ Camryn Manheim

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

~ Camryn Manheim

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

~ Camryn Manheim

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

~ Camryn Manheim

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.

~ Camryn Manheim

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

~ Camryn Manheim