“American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.” PlayBodyCultureGirlParentBehaviorEatingConcernIncreasePsychologicalVulnerabilityDisorderAssociationEmphasisBody ImageEating DisorderPitfallsSexiness Book:Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture Source: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
“Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.” BodyCultureImpossibleSpecialEatingStandardsResponseIndividualityAppearanceExtremesCategoriesDisorderBody ImageEating DisorderThinness Author:Gloria Steinem
“The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.” PeopleBodyWomenAttitudeSocietyFemaleTreatedNakedBody ImageHypocriteBeggingFemale BodyHoe Author:Lena Horne
“My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.” IfsKindBodySimpleAshamedBe KindMy ThoughtsBody Image Author:Lena Dunham
“This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.” PeopleFirstsLooksBodyYoungGirlNormalHollywoodActressesThanksAttractiveCriticizeAdoptedBody ImageAnorexics Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“Girls of all kinds can be beautiful.” KindBodyBeautifulGirlConfidenceAll KindsBody ImageOutgoingFemale BodyConfidence And LoveBody LoveBeautiful BodyBody ConfidenceInspirational BodyUnique Beauty Author:Tyra Banks
“I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.” CountryMatterBodySchoolGirlNamesGroupsEmotionalTrackCategoriesTeenageBody ImageFamily FriendsTeenage GirlEmotional Life Author:Elizabeth Berkley
“Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned” KindBodyBeautifulGirlConfidenceAll KindsPlusTallBody ImageOutgoingFemale BodyConfidence And LoveBody LovePorcelainBeautiful BodyPlus SizeBody ConfidenceInspirational BodyUnique Beauty Author:Tyra Banks
“I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.” KnowsWantReasonBodyWomenBeautyPositiveSexyNo ReasonHidingCurvesBody ImageModelingSexiness Author:Ashley Graham
“Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.” ImportantBodyGirlBoysIssuesClothesBody Image Author:Rosalind Wiseman