Quotes about Body Image

Here are my favourite ever quotes about body image

Quotes About Body Image 

 

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

~ Carrie Arnold

Dieting is to overeating what caffeine is to chronic insomnia.

~ EatWhatYouLove

 

How much free space would you have if you stopped being negative and/or obsessing about your body for a day?

~ HlthyGrl, Quotes about Body Image

 

 

 

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

~ Pablo Picasso, Quotes about Body Image

 

It’s such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

~ Marilyn Wann

 

When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself — but never quite believing it because you don’t sense yourself directly.

~ Geneen Roth

 

 

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.

~ Rosalind Russell, Quotes about Body Image

 

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

~ Naomi Wolf

 

Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.

~ Kim Brittingham

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

~ Amy Bloom

 

 

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

~ George Bernard Shaw, Quotes about Body Image

 

Because you can never have too much positive affirmation that you’re perfect just the way you are.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

~ Cheri K. Erdman

 

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

~ Oprah Winfrey, Quotes about Body Image

 

 

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!

~ Steve Maraboli

 

 

I’ve never seen magazine covers or music videos and been like, “I need to look like that if I want to be a success.” I’ve never seen pictures of hot men and thought, “I have to change what I look like if I want to be with them.” I don’t even need to if I want to sell more records. It’s not stopping me from doing anything and I don’t find that kind of thing attractive.

~ Adele, Quotes about Body Image

 

 

You are not your buttocks.

~ Kaz Cooke

We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape.

~ Cheryl-Ann Webster

 

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