Quotes About Self-image

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it

Es fácil deducir que, si me veo de una manera, todas las conductas, todas las acciones que emprenda tendrán mucha relación con la forma en la que me veo a mí mismo.

Hemos sido condicionados para crear una imagen de nosotros mismos y vivir de acuerdo a esa imagen. Nosotros no vivimos al nivel de nuestros talentos, sino al de nuestras creencias. Por eso al final, el determinante fundamental no es lo inteligente que seamos, ni los conocimientos que poseamos, sino la mentalidad que se elija.

You think of yourself -- light, fast, free -- free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

I can say that all this focus on appearance while I was on Weight Watchers kept me really busy—I filled my life with healthy busywork.

Well into my mid-thirties I considered dieting my biggest secret. I wish I could say it was a thrilling one, like dating my college TA, but it's more like waxing my upper lip—I didn't ever want to talk about it, and I'd rather people thought I never had to worry about it in the first place.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

How should a system convince people that they do not possess their sex properly? Teach them that in their possession it is shapeless and unconditioned. Only once it has been modified, layered with experts, honeycombed with norms, overlaid with pictorial representations, and sold back to them can it fulfill itself as what its possessors "always wanted".

bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Sometimes I think I look like I've had facial reconstructive surgery. Like after burns.

My whole head is like I've had a face lift.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

And you look beautiful, " she added."I look like a cake.""But a beautiful cake.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6 8. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6 1 with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.