Body Image Quotes - Page 8

• Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.

  Alfre Woodard

  Inspiring, Jobs, Light

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• Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

  Isla Fisher

  Baby, Achievement, Body

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

  Rosario Dawson

  Asking, Remember

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Morning, Inspirational Life

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Self Esteem, Passion

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

  William Gibson

  Dark, Hands, Sky

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.31, Penguin

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Taken, Independent Women, May

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.274, Random House

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• You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Successful, People

  "Zooey Deschanel: Actresses are too skinny, it's scary". www.foxnews.com. January 03, 2013.

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• The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Objectification, Faces

  "Adele Nose Job Story Shouldn't Be in Headlines?" by Brittney R. Villalva, www.christianpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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

  Anne Lamott

  Feelings, Body, Range

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.74, Penguin

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Beautiful, Men, Dating

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• My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

  Serena Williams

  Acceptance, Thinking, Body

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• People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Integrity, People

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

  Melissa McCarthy

  Stars, Males, Affliction

  "Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". people.com. June 25, 2014.

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• I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day our body just doesn't even exist at all! It's just a vessel I've been given to move through this life. I think about my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all and end all of my existence. Which sounds like I spent a week at a meditation retreat, but it's genuinely how I feel.

  Lena Dunham

  Philosophy, Moving, Thinking

  "Lena Dunham, Spanish magazine clash over alleged Photoshop used to slim her", www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2016.

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

  Naomi Wolf

  Sexuality, Relinquishing, Asks

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

  Cindy Crawford

  Beauty, Love Yourself, Wake Up

  "Not My Job: Supermodel Cindy Crawford Gets Quizzed On Scale Models". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 7, 2015.

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