Perfect Body Quotes

“Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social media platforms incentivize and facilitate relational aggression. Their openness and willingness to share emotions with other girls espouses them to depression and other disorders. The twisted incentive structures of social media reward the most extreme presentations of symptoms.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Most of the men and women at the gym are working towards the same goal.
"The perfect female body.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Figure shaped like a perfect eight;
put it sideways, even if it takes forever,
that’s how long I’ll wait.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“The perfect body is but an illusion; just give your best.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of public failure from everything you do. And, as you’d expect| by this point in the story, socially prescribed perfectionism began rising, across the Anglosphere nations, in the early 2010s.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness