Queer Body Power Quotes

“There is a very common feeling among sapphic people where you feel slightly predatory for being interested in girls. I think that comes from a lot of deep-rooted homophobia, which perpetuates the idea that queer attraction is depraved.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“Your body doesn’t exist just to prove something to someone else.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“Makeup has no gender. We paint ourselves like we paint self-portraits. Upon our skin we find our art, we live in colour, shape our identity.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“I will not feel ashamed because I don’t adhere to gender roles I never consented to being part of in the first place.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“You deserve to be truly and honestly you.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“You deserve to be truly and honestly ”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“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