Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

I have never apologised for my assets or for being a sex symbol.

The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well.

I'm not a sex symbol.

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

As I got older, I knew my syndrome wasn't going away. It was a hard pill to swallow. I wanted to look like everyone else and blend in, and I couldn't find a way to make that happen. I couldn't blame the doctors or my parents, so I blamed myself.

I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

It's about the kind of love that doesn't ask you to be anyone but who you are.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: "No one on the face of this earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

Who I am hates who I've been.

Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction."

At some point on the spiritual journey, saying "I am human" stops being an apology and turns into a deep reverence and knowing."

Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.

There is nothing lacking in you. You came into this life as an abundant being. You remain as such. Free your heart and mind from anything but this truth.

This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It is always up to you."

And that's okay, but you don't have to erase your past for a different future. This is a wonderful place, especially because I know it lay the foundation for the amazing woman you are today.

Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.

And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.