Body Positivity Quotes

“The body I have shouldn't change how deserving I am of my dreams. - Millie”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“Moth, when I look at you, I don't sit there picking out things that could be perceived as flaws. Because they're not flaws. They're just a part of you. And I love every part of you.”
― Lily Mayne, Moth

“Pretty much the strongest, most badass, and rebellious thing that you can do is to love your body in this world that screams at you that you shouldn't.”
― Laura Bates, Girl Up

“To all the girls that think you’re ugly because you’re not a size 0, you’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“People try to shame me for being fat. When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how they see it and how it upsets them that I am not catering to their gaze and their preferences and desires. I try not to take these men seriously because what they are really saying is, ‘I am not attracted to you. I do not want to fuck you and this confuses my understanding of masculinity, entitlement, and place in this world.’ It is not my job to please them with my body.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“Sometimes Kit would look at the veins in his own hands and think, All these little rivers flowing through my body, keeping me alive. Thank you, little rivers. Thank you.”
― David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

“Every day the world feeds you fakeness; be courageous enough to stay real.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“Oh, how I have

fallen in love

with the

"flaws"

of my body.

I pray all of you

will do the same.

-MY ACCEPTANCE”
― Alice Tyszka, Finding My Light

“It is hugely important to learn to grow as a person by being honest with yourself about why you are struggling. Sometimes self-reflection is hard because you might feel uncomfortable with who you see in that reflection, but it is better to be honest with yourself than to punish yourself.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“To accept your body — and I mean, truly accept your body — without attempting to break it down or pull it apart; slice and dice it to achieve perceived desirability is freedom by any other name.”
― Diriye Osman

“Listen to me now, because if there is one thing in your lifetime that I want you to believe with every fiber of your being, it is this: You are a feat of physics and complex molecules, a spirit magnificent in magnitudes, a precious and invaluable treasure to be cherished—you are the only one of your kind. There has never been another you to walk this planet. There will never be another you again.

You are bigger than your body. Your soul is rare.”
― Kirsten Robinson, Evergreen

“The next time you start looking in the mirror at all the things you want to change, I hope you remember that when you came into this world, there were people who looked at you and thought you were the most perfectly formed human they had ever seen. There still are people who look at you and thank the universe each time for giving them such a precious gift. I hope you remember that where you see things you dislike, they see all that is good and beautiful wrapped up in laughter and the things that make you uniquely you.”
― Kirsten Robinson, Evergreen

“Ich war kreuzunglücklich, und gleichzeitig nahm ich mir dieses Unglück zutiefst übel. Mir ist der Feminismus in die Wiege gelegt worden, ich habe schon mit vierzehn versonnen durch "Mythos Schönheit" geblättert, ein Buch, das schon deshalb bei uns herumlag, weil meine Mutter es übersetzt hatte. Ich war glühende Verfechterin von Body Positivity, noch bevor es das Wort überhaupt gab. In Wirklichkeit hatte ich aber natürlich gemeint: "Body Positivity für alle außer für mich selbst." Und jetzt, wo mein Körper meine Loyalität einforderte, konnte ich sie ihm nicht geben.”
― Judith Holofernes, Die Träume anderer Leute

“Capitalism is not and will not be a source of justice for any of us.”
― Aubrey Gordon, “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

“Often, in my experience, the impression of beauty is created by a single aspect of a woman and from that aspect beauty appears to spread outward through every part of them, rendering them beautiful in their entirety. Sometimes such beauty comes from a smile. Sometimes from a lovely pair of eyes. Sometimes from an attitude, or form of movement, or a sentiment of goodness or happiness which reveals itself in a single expression. Sometimes it is the curve of a body from which beauty spreads, sometimes a tone of skin, or a river of glossy hair that catches the light and seems to shine like silk. Yet were that aspect to be removed and not replaced by something else, so too would the beauty it had brought to light disappear. Less often, beauty comes from several sources in the same person, all working together to increase the impression of overall beauty. If one of these aspects were to disappear, unlike a man, the woman would remain beautiful, though changed.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks

“With your love, I can be nude; I can be myself.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“resting must be given a full time as required to manage your overall body health”
― Anath Lee Wales, your life can be changed.: the true guide to become a change maker!

“You see Viola, this is the body I have and I'm gonna keep it. I've got a potato nose, a bit of flab, a muffin top... I've grown attached to them. And life's too short to worry about what other people think. I've decided to like myself the way I am and to have fun, every time I can.”
― Assia Petricelli, Per sempre

“I glance down at my body, tempted to poke at my hips. I find it funny how every single thing in this world reminds me of art. A large canvas is still a pretty one.”
― Shireen Ayache, Card of Truth

“I ate that skinny woman and she was delicious but she was not satisfied.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Är det inte absurt att det pågår ett alldeles speciellt hårt flerfrontskrig mot vissa kroppar? Tänk på hur mycket energi som, på grund av det kriget, går åt att oroa sig, kritisera, stångas, granska och nedvärdera den absolut enda förutsättningen till liv, det vill säga kroppen, självsfodralet, köttkostymen, existensfarkosten.”
― Stina Wollter, Kriget mot kroppen

“A war on obesity that teaches people to hate themselves in the name of health is useless. Campaigning for help while ignoring the harm the campaign has inflicted on those who it's supposedly trying to help, is senseless. And aiming to improve people's physical health with methods that actively destroy those people's mental health, is so obviously backwards that I have no idea how people aren't seeing it.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power

“You can't get a body you love by doing things that you hate.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Microdoses of well-being are accessible to every one of us—no matter how we got here or how off track we might be.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“Two healthy habits we underestimate, at our own peril, are nurturing the relationships that keep us sane—and extricating ourselves from the ones that make us feel measurably worse.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Spirit can mean whatever you want, but it is rooted in connection, in the stillness that comes when words are no longer necessary. It’s a place, a practice, or a way of being that gets you out of your head.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“The Habit Trip offers a deliberate method to receive the messages your body is sending and respond in kind with healing reinforcements. It’s an actionable antidote for stress and frustration.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Your strengths are skills that come naturally. They smooth out your life from the center like a pat of melted butter.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Your body is the conduit for every satisfying experience you will ever have.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“To be made love to by someone who did not think me beautiful was not part of any fantasy I had ever had.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks