Rosie Molinary > Quotes

“With journaling, you see the patterns of your life; you claim—or reclaim—who you really are; you coach yourself into becoming the someone you imagined; you arrive at a sense of balance, of yourself, of wholeness. You can discover productive patterns and nonproductive patterns in your life, and you can choose to embrace the ones that move you forward.”
― Rosie Molinary, Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance

“Having a negative self-image or a negative body image is like always having a gate-crashing critic watching the events of your life as they unfold.”
― Rosie Molinary, Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance

“What I have learned as a writer is that people love being asked about their stories.”
― Rosie Molinary, Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance

“It's easy to be worried about the media's influence on our lives. But there is a need for us to also simply be kind to ourselves, to be kind to our bodies. Not just because we deserve more respect and more self-care, but also because the world deserves more of our attention, and we just can't give it out if it's diverted to obsessing over our thighs.”
― Rosie Molinary, Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina