Camryn Manheim

Actress

1961-03-08

Quotes by Camryn Manheim

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.
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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.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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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.
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