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Quotes About Acceptance

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away
~ Unknown
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
~ Erma Bombeck
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
~ Billy Graham
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
~ Chief Joseph
Ladies, beauty is not defined by the size of you jeans.
~ Unknown
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come...The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
~ Audrey Hepburn
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
~ Elliot Paul
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early
~ Baltasar Gracian
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.
~ Tyra Banks
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
~ Anne Bradstreet
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
~ Corazon Aquino
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
~ Courtney Love
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not.
~ William Shakespeare
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
~ Germaine Greer
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
~ Unknown
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
~ John Lennon
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
~ Gloria Steinem
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~ Doris Lessing
Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
~ Roseanne Barr
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.
~ Drew Barrymore
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
~ Unknown