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    “Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.”
    ― Cheri K. Erdman
    tags: body-image, culture, diet-industry, diets, eating-disorders, self-esteem, society, weight
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
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    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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    “God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
    ― Drew Barrymore
    tags: self-image
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    Chad Harbach
    “Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.”
    ― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
    tags: literature, the-art-of-fielding
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    Naomi Wolf
    “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, self-esteem, sexual-violence, sexuality, society
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  • #7
    “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”
    ― Nic Sheff
    tags: ataraxy, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth
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    Golda Poretsky
    “Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.”
    ― Golda Poretsky
    tags: beauty, body-image, inner-beauty
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    Golda Poretsky
    “I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.”
    ― Golda Poretsky
    tags: fitting-in, inspiration, stereotypes
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  • #10
    Nalini Singh
    “You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.”
    ― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade
    tags: dmitri, honor
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    Nalini Singh
    “In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?”
    Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed.
    Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched.
    “I’m no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I’d know how to fix you.”
    ― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade
    tags: dmitri, honor, love, sad, vampire, vampire-hunter
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