“...They like them because while any mother is a diagram
of place,
a picture of home,
a fat one is a clearer diagram, a greater sacrament. She is more there. I can think
of no better wish to all the slender swans of this present age than to propose
them a toast: May your husbands find you as slim as they like; your children
should always remember you were fat.”
From the mostly charming and sometimes
wacky Robert Farrar Capon in his great book Bed and Board
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