Quotes About Self-acceptance

I have long since stopped caring what others think, he said. --- Of me or of anything else.

Cellulite and sexual potential are highly correlated.

What if I'd wasted my entire life comparing myself with people who didn't really matter? Try as I might, I still can't wrap my mind around it.

The problem isn't gaining weight, it's gaining it in the right place.

What she thought about while looking at the waves was a complete mystery, yet you could tell that these thoughts pleased her, and that she liked herself better while thinking them.

My sisters and I refuse to feel bad about shopping. And why should we? Obviously we have some hole we're trying to fill, but doesn't everyone? And isn't filling it with berets the size of toilet-seat covers, if not more practical, then at least healthier than filling it with frosting or heroin or unsafe sex with strangers?

Imi place sa vad oamenii dezbracati, dar nu sunt sigur ca sunt pregatit sa ma vad pe mine dezbracat. Cel mult voi scapa de cateva kilorame din cauza anxietatii si voi iesi castigat de doua ori. Cu cut sunt mai putin obligat sa ma accept asa cum sunt, cu atat mai usor imi va fi. Deja simt ca mi-a pierit apetitul.

Imi place sa vad oamenii dezbracati, dar nu sunt sigur ca sunt pregatit sa ma vad pe mine dezbracat. Cel mult voi scapa de cateva kilorame din cauza anxietatii si voi iesi castigat de doua ori. Cu cat sunt mai putin obligat sa ma accept asa cum sunt, cu atat mai usor imi va fi. Deja simt ca mi-a pierit apetitul.

Es interesante aceptar sin traumas la idea de decepcionar a los demás, de no hacer lo que esperan de ti.

No te puedes imaginar la cantidad de años en que mastiqué en silencio lo que sentía, lo que padecía, con todos mis complejos. Hasta que entendí que deshumanizarme era salvarme.

You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?

She accepts everything that has happened to her as her destiny, no more surprised or alienated to be who she is than I imagine Cleopatra was to be Cleopatra. I

They don't mind what their kids do in life as long as they're reasonably, you know, healthy. Happy. And every single fucking day is not this huge battle between who they are and who they should be, what they were and what they will be.

I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person it pleases them to be. And few people want to be forced to ask themselves, What is there is no me like my statue? The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she had remembered. Perhaps she'd better look. She went over to the dresser and looked hard at her skin and features. The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place.

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth? Couldn't tell you to save my life. Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world. De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason. Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there. Well then, what was they put here for? To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

I never abused anybody but myself.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

Doing 'Hedwig' totally contributed to my acceptance of myself.

Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.