Quotes About Self-acceptance

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I don't care if someone makes fun of me, but if someone calls me a mean person or something, I reply. If you don't like me in makeup, that's OK. But I would like people to like me as a person.

I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

'Black Panther' has made me embrace my natural black hair. The representation of natural black hair in the film has made me reflect on myself.

I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

If someone calls you fat and you are fat, then it will be hurtful only if you feel you should not be fat.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

I'm really glad that I kept the gap. There are a lot of iconic women from past and present who have one.

I had no fake ID and looked 14 until my first grey hairs came in a couple of years ago.

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

Plus-size is a term that's never been used in hate; no one has ever used it in a negative way. The industry has always used it to help us identify where to shop.

I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?

Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.

I never had to battle for my identity.