Quotes About Self-image

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified.

Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Perseguida pelo medo da velhice, deixei envelhecer a nossa relação. Ocupada em me fazer bela, deixei escapar a verdadeira beleza, que apenas mora no desnudar do olhar. O lençol esfriou, a cama se desaventurou. Esta é a diferença: a mulher que tu encontraste aí, em África, fica bela apenas para ti. Eu ficava bela para mim, que é um outro modo de dizer: para ninguém.

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.

Wendell turned to the chalkboard and wrote I AM A WORTHLESS FAT-BODY.

In pained tones, Ottavio outlined his opinion that people were not eating enough these days. All they ever thought about was their figures, a selfish, shortsighted view contributing directly to the impoverishment of restaurateurs and the downfall of civilization as we know it. What the Goths, the Huns, and the Turks had failed to do was now being achieved by a conspiracy of dietitians who were bringing the country to its knees with all this talk of cholesterols, calories, and the evils of salt.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

The old-boobs Pamela or the new-boobs Pamela?

I keep my red-brown hair bristle short so it doesn't curl. Put it on top of a face full of freckles and a nose that isn't exactly small, I don't think I have career options in TV.

I try to be confident, always have, but despite my best efforts, sometimes I come off like I'm a total..." "Dick?" I finished for him. "I'm just randomly picking words out of the air. Tell me if you think I'm close.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

Simons could not identify this ideal self-image with the dark side of his personality – the side which murdered. He attributed the identity of his original aggressor, namely his brother, to the murderous side of himself and said in his statement to the detectives that it was the spirit of his deceased brother who ordered him to murder the children.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.