Best Body Image Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

“Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.”

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“There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.”

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Author:Kim Kardashian

“A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.”

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Author:Christiane Northrup

“As a physician who knows the importance of body image to our overall health, I wanted to have a way to inspire women to love their bodies no matter what size or shape they are. This is possible!!! And I know EXACTLY how to do this because I've done it myself and I've helped thousands of others to do the same thing. It's women's health at its most fundamental level!”

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Author:Christiane Northrup

“I make funny shows and put a positive message out there, showing people who have body image issues that... you don't have to look a certain way.”

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Author:Zach Anner

“I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you. And I could not believe the backlash. I could not believe that people twisted and turned that story - and accused me of having body image issues or an eating disorder. And then someone explained to me that most people on the planet probably don't know what Weight Watchers is, that it's really just about good eating habits.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“How goodness heightens beauty!”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.”

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Author:Tyra Banks

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.”

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Author:Adele

“Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.”

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Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.”

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Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.”

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Author:Kate Winslet

“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.”

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Book:The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”

Asks Sexuality Body Image Relinquishing

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.”

Ifs Feelings Body Range Entitled Body Image Packages

Book:Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”

Source: What I Know For Sure

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.”

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

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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

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Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”

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Author:Amy Bloom

“Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.”

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Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

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Author:Anthony Trollope

“Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.”

“I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.”

“One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.”

“What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?”

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Author:Caroline Knapp

“To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini - put it on and stay strong.”

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Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.”

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Author:Amy Adams

“I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards.”

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Author:Khloe Kardashian

“Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.”

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Author:Ariana Grande

“The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off”

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Author:Sofia Vergara

“You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.”

“I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.”

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Author:Kim Kardashian

“I love my curves and I embrace them.”

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Author:Eva Mendes

“Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.”

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Author:Tyra Banks

“I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

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