Body Shame Quotes (11 quotes)

“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE — PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: awkward, blemish, body, body-shame, equality, feminism, happy, human, image, invisible, lgbt, male, male-beauty, man, masculinity, muscle, photoshop, pride, puberty, reality, shame, trans, transgender, visibility

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“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: body, body-modification, body-shame, cosmetics, expectations, judgment, opinion, relationships, shame, societal-expectations, surgery, trans, transgender

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“It is a very pretty beach. We're not really beach people, and obviously no one wants to see this in a bikini!" She made a face of pure loathing and gestured at her perfectly ordinary body, which Madeline judged to be about the same size as her own.

"I don't see why not," said Madeline. She had no patience for this sort of talk. It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

tags: body-hatred, body-shame

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“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: acceptance, authenticity, beauty, body, body-shame, closet, closeted, desire, honesty, lies, mind, prison, shame, trans, transgender-lgbt, truth, undesirable

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“My body is a political battlefield.
It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.
It is a place where memories go to find purpose for their existence.
It is a place where humans cast all inhibitions aside to discover what exists at their very core.
It is a place of growth wearing a mask of destruction.
It is a challenge, not for the faint of heart, beckoning us to face it with eyes wide open.

The only war is within. When you are ready to fight it, the field awaits.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: battle, battlefield, body, body-shame, challenge, destruction, field, growth, humanity, inhibition, internal, lgbt, overcoming, politics, pride, spiritual-warfare, survival, trans, transgender, triumph, war

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“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: abort, abortion, adage, adages, adopt, adoption, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, birth, birthday, body, body-shame, boob, boobs, bra, breast, breast-feed, breast-feeding, breasts, deep, diaper, diapers, dictum, dictums, drawers, epigram, epigrams, female, females, foreplay, function, functions, g-string, g-strings, girl, girls, gnome, gnomes, humor, humour, impression, insightful, lingerie, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mother, motherhood, mothers, nappies, nappy, newborn, newborns, panties, panty, parent, parenthood, parents, potties, potty, potty-training, pregnancy, pregnancy-test, pregnancy-tests, pregnant, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, push-up, push-up-bra, push-up-bras, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, role, roles, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sex, sexiness, sexy, silver-stripe, silver-stripes, skivvies, stretch-mark, stretch-marks, strip, stripper, strippers, stripping, the-pill, thought-provoking, thoughtful, toilet, toilet-training, toilets, underclothes, undergarment, undergarments, underthings, underwear, undies, woman, women

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“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders.
Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have in common is the ability to distract women from the memories, sensations, and experience of the sexual abuse through starving, bingeing, purging, or exercising. They keep the focus on food, body image, weight, fat, calories, diets, miles, and other factors that women focus on during the course of an eating disorder. These disorders also have the ability to numb a woman from the overwhelming emotions resulting from the sexual abuse — especially loss of control, terror, and shame about her body. Women often have a combination of eating disorders in in their history. Some women are anorexic during one period of their life, bulimic during another, and compulsive eaters at yet another stage.”
― Karen A. Duncan, Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women

tags: anorexic, binge, body-image, body-shame, bulimic, child-sexual-abuse, compulsive, culture, eating-disorders, emotions, numbe, overwhelming, purge, sexual-abuse, shame, women

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“I'm learning to practice gratitude for a healthy body, even if it's rounder than I'd like it to be. I’m learning to take up all the space I need, literally and figuratively, even though we live in a world that wants women to be tiny and quiet. To feed one’s body, to admit one’s hunger, to look one's appetite straight in the eye without fear or shame—this is controversial work in our culture. Part of being a Christian means practicing grace in all sorts of big and small and daily ways, and my body gives me the opportunity to demonstrate grace, to make peace with imperfection every time I see myself in the mirror. On my best days, I practice grace and patience with myself, knowing that I can't extend grace and patience if I haven't tasted it.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

tags: body-shame, christianity, grace

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“My body parts disgust him. Maybe my bloated belly isn't fluid retention but a storage of tears from all my silent cries.”
― Vanessa de Largie, Don't Hit Me!

tags: abuse, bodies, body-shame, body-shaming, eating-disorders, fat, female-body, shame

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“Everyone's body shamed!”
― Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories

tags: body, body-complex, body-image, body-positivity, body-shame, body-shaming

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“She was running for all those ordinary, fragile souls whose bodies had been shamed like hers. In them, she had found herself. And so she ran for them, for those who, like her, had found comfort only in cut-out posters of clownfish. Now they had a different poster they could dream about: an athlete, an international star, her body neither fully boy nor fully girl, but simply the body of Johanna Venter, Girl Wonder.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

tags: body-differences, body-shame, gender, gender-identity, gender-roles

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