318 Quotes About Body-image

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

But you are soft and furry with rather big ears, just like a bunny rabbit.I like my ears just fine, and I have the soft fur of a chinchilla.

But you have a long busy tail like a squirrel. Although its bushiness could use some work.I like my tail just fine. It is the perfect amount of bushiness.

You have a real mouse-y face, with beady little eyes.I like my eyes just fine, and I have the face of a chinchilla.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.

Thin, thick, tall, small, slender, curvy, curly, straight, dark, light, that body, with every detail is YOURS alone, look at it with compassion.