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#1

“and i said to my body. softly. ‘i want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘i have been waiting my whole life for this.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: body-positivity, inspirational, prose-poetry

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#2

“He'll have that scar forever."

"Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?"

"Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: body-positivity, funny, humour, london, magic, optimism, positivity, scar, scars, wisdom

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#3

“This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

tags: body, body-positive, body-positivity, girl, love

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#4

“I like how I look, usually, but people - especially people on the internet - can be so mean when you're fat. As if fat makes you stupid or dirty or irresponsible. As if fat makes you anything other than...fat.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

tags: body-positivity

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#5

“Never second guess a BBW”
― Patrice Brown, A Fat Girl's Confidence: Beating Depression and Building Self Esteem

tags: bbw, body-positivity, confidence, overweight, positive, self-help

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#6

“You are fine, just the way you are... Bodies come in all shapes and sized. Don't let anyone make you feel any differently.
I wanted to believe him, but by then, of course, the damage had been done.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer

tags: body-image, body-positivity, bullying, bullying-quotes, fat-shaming

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