Body Image Quotes

Body Image Quote of the day

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

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I have cellulite. So what?

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

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

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

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.

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

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

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

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

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.

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

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

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.

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

You look how you look

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

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

You are not your buttocks.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

Healthy body image is not something that youre going to learn from fashion magazines.

I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself.

I've always embraced my curves since I was a teenie-bopper.

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

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

My man prefers meat over the bone.

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.

Body image has nothing to do with scale numbers, it's how you feel inside.

I absolutely get more comfortable in my body and my skin as I get older, more than when I was in my 20s.

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

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

It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.

To set the record straight, I’m not upset for me, but for all the girls out there that are struggling with their body image.

The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.

Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

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

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Being in the health industry can do a major number on your head when it comes to body image.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.

I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had — no matter what.

This body needs me to say yes to it, just as it is right now. No more singing that same old jingle of body-shame and dieter's promised lands.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.