Quotes About Self-acceptance

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change!

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

It's really about being pleased with yourself.

You only can do what you can do. Just make sure you're pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain't, that's just part of the game.

I went through a lot of hate online, so I tried to change myself for a really long time. But people just kept hating on me no matter what I did. I decided that instead of pleasing these other people, I'll just spend that time pleasing myself.

I don't half love being in my forties! You feel more grown-up and can say 'no' to things without feeling you're letting the whole team down. You don't have to worry about pleasing other people all the time. You just feel more comfortable in yourself.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.

Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.

I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.

The term 'plus size' is so inaccurate. I'm not plus size; I have never bought an article of clothing that was plus size.

I'm OK with being called plus size, I'm OK with being called fat. If someone is shouting that I'm fat in the street in a derogatory way, then obviously I'm not OK with that, but I'm comfortable using the adjective fat to describe myself, because I am fat.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

I am not a saint, and neither do I claim to walk on water.

Every woman has cellulite. I've never claimed to have a perfect body.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don't be afraid to be yourself.