Body Image Quotes - Page 6

• I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with it. I think it's because I was a gymnast for eight years, from ages four to 12. My body was made before my bones were fully grown. Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

  Pink

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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

  M.J. Rose

  Average, Mind, Magazines

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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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Bullying, Sex

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Self, Confusion

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• 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.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Believe, People, Healthy

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

  Christiane Northrup

  Body, Women's Bodies, Paramount

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Caring

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• How goodness heightens beauty!

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Goodness

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

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Body, Honest

  "Kardashian fame and fragrance". Interview With Trish Crawford, www.thestar.com. April 28, 2010.

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• I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

  Salma Hayek

  Girl, Limits, Skinny

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Party, Your Side

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Personality, Body, Knows

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

  Erin Heatherton

  Fashion, Healthy, Magazines

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• Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize the past to re-create the present, enhance their self-concept and body image, attract attention, assert themselves, confront the strong, and persuade others to change their ways.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Strong, Past, Self

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.

  Coco Ho

  Taken, Media, Talking

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• 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.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Real, Taken, People

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• I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Needs, Tools

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• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Badass

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• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Culture, Critics

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• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  Ben Affleck

  Hero, Issues, Play

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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

  Robert Hughes

  Loss, Issues, Drug

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