What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brene BrownIt is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
Taylor SwiftGenteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich NietzscheAll fat women look the same; they all look 42.
Margaret AtwoodWhen people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady GagaPeople make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.
Dolly PartonWhen you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.
RihannaReal beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David ByrneIt’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerTo be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert CamusSociety has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
Clint EastwoodConsult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.
Beyonce KnowlesIf a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich NietzscheLove is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
Eckhart TolleI was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.
The WeekndYou may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotI will praise any man that will praise me.
William ShakespeareBe happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Ariana GrandeThis self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
VoltaireMy body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.
AuroraIf you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine AlbrightLife is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.
Tom BradyThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao TzuI would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI am happy and I’m single.
RihannaAlways remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. NixonYou’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. SeussI have never given adoration to any body except myself.
Oscar WildeI have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
Lady GagaWhen you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao TzuThe body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn MonroeI don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.
Anthony BourdainThe day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.
RihannaIt would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Karl LagerfeldAs we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
Angelina JolieYou need to understand what works best for your own body.
Sunil ChhetriWe’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
Anthony HopkinsI love imperfections.
Lady GagaAt the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
Kevin HartLove other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi MinhYou are not a problem that needs solving.
Eckhart TolleThere isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
Marilyn MonroeThere is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.
Herbert HooverI love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
Billie EilishI was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Alice MunroWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
Beyonce KnowlesI want the world to see my body.
Marilyn MonroeI would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya AngelouThe correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis BaconThe greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnce you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.
Alice WalkerThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Audrey HepburnI always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.
Michelle ObamaI never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.
Audrey HepburnI have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam ChomskyI shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington