318 Quotes About Body-image

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

Accepting your body means accepting that sexual pleasure is not meant just for other people. Sex is a human right. Take back that right! Empower yourself as a sexy, sensual woman by discovering your likes and dislikes, turn-ons and turn-offs, and the positions that give you the most pleasure.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Because when you kiss your first boy or girl, you don't want to be so caught up in your lack of self-worth that you forget to enjoy the kiss, that you forget that you deserve the pleasure of that moment. You don't want to be so caught up in your lack of self-worth that you become an object of his or her desire, a grateful unworthy slave to his or her attention.

Chubby chasers don't prove that fat is beautiful. Chubby chasers show us that ugliness is optional.

I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.