318 Quotes About Body-image

You’re showing young girls that you don’t have to be thin to be beautiful, many a freshly body positive women’s mag editor has started off an interview with me, causing my pelvic floor to seize up in a fit of fury. No, I correct them, I’m showing young girls that you don’t have to be beautiful to matter.

There's not a damned thing wrong with your body. You are average-sized, you deluded fool! You are an attractive, intelligent woman, you idiot! You should spend January lying in a hammock and eating cheese.

... the cultivation of body dissatisfaction is so lucrative that the misguidance continues.

Detta krig som jag har utkämpat mot kroppen, denna medfödda motsättning mellan själ och kropp. [...] Kriget är över nu, jag vann och jag gratulerar mig till segern även om den kom väl sent.

People should just be allowed to look in the mirror and see all kinds of possibilities.

I hate hating my body. Actually, I don’t even hate my body. I just worry everyone else might.

Your body is yours. My body is mine. No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how large, how curvy, how flat. If you love you, then I love you.

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things that came naturally to me, like my intelligence, but when I really put all my effort into looking nice (trying to), it went unrecognised. No-one ever told me I looked pretty or nice, or that I was a beautiful person (to them) and I needed them to...

She had decided that because she couldn't love her body, she would try to love what she put on it.