Quotes About Self-acceptance

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

I don't think I'd know I had cerebral palsy if other people didn't tell me.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of, and you have to not care.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

I am who I am, and I'm not trying to act a certain way that I'm not.

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

I just think we need to have a little sense of humor about yourself and just live and learn, take some chances.

I'm not here to change the world, I'm just want to be me and do what I do.

I can't keep changing myself according to how someone sees me.

I feel sexy when I can be in charge of how I present my body and how I am in this world.

Own what you have, be happy, love your family, and be sure of yourself no matter what passion you are chasing.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am female.

I love my body! I cherish it.

I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don't know if that's a word, but I didn't embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that.

I have been shamed by people for being unabashed about my choices in life.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

I don't look like a chorus girl.

If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be.

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

What gives you strength at any circumstance is your understanding of yourself.