Body Neutrality Quotes

“Body neutrality is experiential and not something that happens overnight ... It's one awareness at a time, one thought at a time.”
― Anne Poirier

“I understand that health is conditional and fragile for all of us, and I relish mine; I would never risk it over something as trivial as my appearance. I understand a lot now that I didn’t then.”
― Max Robinson, Detransition: Beyond Before and After

“Because shame is hard to scrub from the bones.
Because trauma doesn’t end; it echoes.
Because I wanted to end this story with me in my thirties, looking in the mirror and loving my body, but that’s not how this goes.
Because true stories ping between crisis and resolution, back and forth and back again, peace and horror, peace and horror.”
― Kate Gies, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body