Hanne Blank Quotes:

There is no wrong way to have a body.

source: - Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press

Topics: Body, Way, Wrong Way

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

source: - Hanne Blank (2012). “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”, p.18, Beacon Press

Topics: Want

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.

Topics: Heterosexuality, Privilege, States, Heterosexuality Is

The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.

source: - Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press

Topics: Moving, Apology, Thinking

And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases they are demonstrably affected or directed by culture and socialization. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

source: - Hanne Blank (2012). “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”, p.18, Beacon Press

Topics: Perception, Mind, Culture, Socialization

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

Topics: Real, Real Women, Fats

Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.

Topics: Sex, People

You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world for other people. You're here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.

source: - Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.63, Ten Speed Press

Topics: People, Looks, World