Quotes About Self-acceptance

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

People can say I'm fat but I know my own body. I always look big because I'm bigger built - I've got that Wayne Rooney type of body.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

I consider myself a little weak.

It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

Having a mental illness does not mean you're weak or can't handle life. You can have a mental illness and deal with it and still be a powerful, confident woman.

All our lives... we are after this race of being slim or fat. I think the only classification should be if we are healthy or weak.

I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

There's a plain girl in everybody.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

People feel like they have to hide their true colors to please the people around them.

What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.