Quotes About Self-acceptance

You're afraid to let a man close for fear he'll uncover the wanton [bitch] side of you that you're so ashamed of.

She is focused on living her own full life, following her own agenda and cultivating her actual self, rather than reinventing herself or pining away to be someone she's not.

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE French journalist Christophe, who's had many amorous experiences on both sides of the Atlantic, sums it up this way: "French women are more comfortable being naked than American women.

Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?' Oh, I don't know. I'm a fat piece of shit, I guess.

I got divorced today," she said. "I lost my job—no, correct that, my career—six months ago, as you well know, because I had a panic attack on the air. I've grown terrified of people, not particular people, but in general, which is worse. I've spent the last few months a virtual shut-in. And honestly? I can't wait to get back to it. Brian, there's nothing I like about myself.

When I feel ashamed, it means I feel there isn't just something wrong with what I've done, there is something wrong with who I am. Shame is often a hidden emotion and it can be paralyzing in its power.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

Let me be enough

I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.

I want people to understand that there are Asians born with the crease I had surgically done to my eyes, so the goal was never to look less Asian.

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

I'm so proud of my body. I'm so proud to be an athlete. I wouldn't change anything.

I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly.

When you become comfortable in your own skin, it actually makes you appear more attractive because you're just confident in who you are.

I don't play an attractive game. That's fine with me.

Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.

I'm an average person.

I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'

I really don't care what people think of me.

I don't care what people think about me.