Quotes About Self-acceptance

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

I love my hourglass figure.

I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.

I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

My audience has accepted me for a long time as, you know, not a fat comedian but a comedian who happens to be fat. That's a huge difference.

It's not a good feeling to hide a huge part of your life. If you were meant to be somebody else, you'd be somebody else, so don't change who you are.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I am a human being. I have anxiety. I have doubts. And I'm not afraid to put it out there.

I'm not a perfect human being.

Human beings need to feel that they are lovable and capable of loving.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.

I don't get too hung up on what people think of me.

All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age.

Women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves... we've left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

El amor hace que quieras ser un hombre mejor, vale, de acuerdo. Pero a lo mejor el amor, el verdadero amor, también te autoriza para ser simplemente el hombre que eres.

Love makes you want to be a better man - right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

I'm barely five foot—four foot, ten inches in truth, but I round up. Sue me. I'm thirty-one, but people tend to talk to me in singsong, like they want to give me fingerpaints.