318 Quotes About Body-image

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Every Cell in My Body Exudes Universal Energy.That Makes Me a Beautiful Body & Soul.

Girls have poisoned themselves in the pursuit of beauty, drowned in the need for perfection. Just to obtain some worth, because even a little worth is everything. It happened and it will happen again and again.