Quotes About Self-acceptance

I want people to live to their full potential, not to hold themselves back because of insecurities, and especially not women. I see too much of that.

When I was younger, before I was married and had children, I really was nit-picky, a perfectionist. I was very much into different people's approval. I had too much time on my hands, I think.

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

I'm not the most naturally confident person you'll ever meet. It took me a while to find my love for self.

I'm so pro-selfie because I think it's a tool that allows girls to create images of their own and of themselves.

I'm not able to change the tools that I bring to the table. I've tried to fade into the background many times, and I just can't do it.

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

She was humble and put herself down. She felt her feet were a little too big and she had a bump on her nose and a crooked tooth. But she didn't get the tooth fixed. She didn't get the nose broken and set straight. She worked with what she had.

My hair is different than a lot of people's. I like my hair. I like the fade. I like the little design I have. I'm cool with it. Obviously my hair is thin on top, so it looks like a bald spot, but I really could care less.

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

Usually, somebody's size is not even in the top five things they would say about themselves. Because there's so much more going on than if they have blonde hair or are a size 12.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

I don't torture myself.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves.

I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

I had a totally normal relationship with my body.

I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.