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Quotes About Self-image

Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Oh, man, I was a stick in high school. I had a bird chest; I got called that a lot: 'Bird chest.' But I've always been comfortable with my body, even when I was super skinny.
~ DeAndre Jordan
Skinny jeans don't work on someone, like me, who's a size 12 and has got child-bearing hips.
~ Holly Willoughby
I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'
~ Lisa Stansfield
An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!
~ Hillary Carlip
I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.
~ Margaret Cho
I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.
~ Mia Wasikowska
I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.
~ Mindy Kaling
To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.
~ Miuccia Prada
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
~ Nancy O'Dell
Many of us still think our value as a human being is in what we do or what we don't do, rather than who we are.
~ Bill Pittman
She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.
~ Boris Pasternak
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. IT has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.
~ Susanna Kaysen
whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak,weak you will be; if you think yourself strong,you will be
~ Swami Vivekananda
Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.
~ Sylvia Day
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
~ Sylvia Plath
I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.
~ Sylvia Plath
Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.
~ Sylvia Plath
I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.
~ Sylvia Plath
The dress was cut so queerly I couldn't wear any sort of a bra under it, but that didn't matter much as I was skinny as a boy and barely rippled, and I liked feeling almost naked on the hot summer nights.
~ Sylvia Plath
I thought I only need tell him what I wanted to, and that I could control the picture he had of me by hiding this and revealing that, all the while he thought he was so smart.
~ Sylvia Plath
Mirrors can kill and talk, they are terrible rooms
~ Sylvia Plath
My ribs show. What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.
~ Sylvia Plath