Body Image Quotes

“My advice to women is to be healthy. I'm not a fan of the skinny look.”

“I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.”

“I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as a sex symbol. I'm not going to lie, I have a great body.”

“My goal was never to be the thinnest woman in the world, it was to be the healthiest.”

“I was told I had to lose weight for a role. And I went, 'Okay,' and I lost the weight. But it really affected me, and now I won't do it.”

“The pursuit of the perfect body is an endless and fruitless quest.”

“Fat is a feminist issue.”

“We live in a culture that is terrified of fat.”

“There's a lot of pressure on women to look a certain way, and I think that's wrong.”

“If I had my mouth done, I wouldn't have been able to smile.”

“The body is a site of political and personal struggle.”

“We have turned our bodies into our enemies.”

“The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar business that preys on women's insecurities.”

“Being thin is not the same as being happy.”

“Our bodies are not objects to be perfected but homes to be lived in.”

“What we eat and how we feel about our bodies is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves as women.”

“Mothers pass on their own body anxieties to their daughters.”

“I'm not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage women to be healthy and fit, rather than thin.”

“You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press, I've been pregnant for the last 10 years.”

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”