Quotes About Self-acceptance

Do you know that some women actually refuse to be treated for fear of losing their hair? In the words of my friend India Arie: "Hey, I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." I wanted to make a statement that I wasn't ashamed to have cancer or be bald. I was absolutely stunned by the reaction to my video diary. The outpouring of support was overwhelming.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

I'm a helpless, recovering introvert

It was never meant to be a prescribed time and place for us to obsess about doing the appropriate thing at the appropriate moment all while wearing an appropriate outfit.

Let's just say that on my way down here, I embraced my inner klutz.

I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way.

Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.

If women had power, we wouldn't need Spanx.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

I accepted these limitations, knowing that my worth was based entirely on the child growing inside me.

Don't make apologies for being yourself.

I agree. I have a therapist now, one with whom I'm actually honest, and we've been over the events of my life again and again—rehashing without judgment the things I've done, the things that have been done to me, and how I ultimately saved myself.

I'm not old, but I've misused my body and let others misuse it, and I think it shows.

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste . . . years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just . . . take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard.

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.

owning your sexuality is a big part of equality.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself . . . to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was." —ALICE WALKER

You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. At thirty they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact, and if sensible, console themselves by remembering that they have twenty more useful, happy years, in which they may be learning to grow old gracefully.

Aprendí que la mirada implacable con la que nos fileteamos y descuartizamos y despreciamos las mujeres es una mirada nuestra, una mirada interna, una exigencia loca con la que nosotras mismas nos esclavizamos

bastaría con ir soltando lastre. Con irse desnudando de las capas superfluas. Fuera la dictadura de #HacerLoQueSeDebe. Adiós a la #Ambición esclavizante y a la inseguridad torturadora (estas dos son pareja). Se acabó la #Culpabilidad y el ciego mandato de #HonrarALosPadres.