Body Image Quotes - Page 5

• I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nice

  "10 Times Emma Watson Ruled At Life" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2014.

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• I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fashion, Hate, Fall

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• I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

  Kate Winslet

  Nice, Way, Taste

  "Kate Winslet can't take skinny Hollywood seriously but admits to trying 'dodgy' juice diet". www.mirror.co.uk. October 2, 2014.

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• I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Daughter, Sorry

  "Kate Winslet: 'I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks'". Interview with Simona Siri, www.vanityfair.it. May 30, 2012.

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• I look like people that walk down the street. I don't have perfect boobs, I don't have zero cellulite - of course I don't - and I'm curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that's great.

  Kate Winslet

  Zero, Perfect, People

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• As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire life. There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses. But at a certain point, when you achieve a lot of your goals and you can be proud of your work, you start to relax more about who you are. And that includes your appearance and self-image - I don't think I look too bad for a mother of two. But women shouldn't have to feel the pressure to compare themselves to actresses or models.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Mother, Thinking

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• I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Sexy, Character, Giving

  "Kirsten Dunst: 'I love my snaggle fangs, they give me character'". www.celebitchy.com. August 01, 2011.

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• What no woman or man needs is anyone telling them they are 'too fat' or 'too skinny.' That just adds to the many stereotypes out there about a person's weight.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Men, Weight, Skinny

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• I can do everything skinny girls can do, trust me. I honestly think Hollywood is getting real. They're saying, 'Hey this is what a lot of America looks like,' a lot of America doesn't wear a size 2. I think the studios and the media are starting to realize that overweight people want something they can relate to, so let's give it to them.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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• 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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• I don't feel like my work is dependent on my size. I feel like my work is dependent on the fact that I'm an everywoman. I'd be an everywoman if I lost 20 pounds or if I gained 50 pounds, because of my attitude and it's my relationship to the world and the fact that like I have two front teeth that are bigger than the rest of my teeth.

  Lena Dunham

  Attitude, Two, Teeth

  Time Interview, www.today.com. April 2012.

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• Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspiring, Body, Demand

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!

  America Ferrera

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.

  Judy Reyes

  Years, Clothes, Weight

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• Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

  Victoria Moran

  Caring, Dedication, Growing

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• The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

  Kaz Cooke

  Fashion, Jobs, Thinking

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• But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.”

  Julie Bindel

  Thinking, Order, People

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• 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.

  Susie Orbach

  Inspirational, Girl, Women

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• 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.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Play, Parent

  Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Lena Dunham

  Simple, Body, Be Kind

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• 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.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, People, Hollywood

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• Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned

  Tyra Banks

  Beautiful, Girl, Confidence

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

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Boys, Clothes

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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

  Chris Cornell

  Workout, Focus, Brain

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• Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.

  M.J. Rose

  Strong, Hate, Self

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