Delve into our curated selection of body image quotes that challenge societal beauty standards, promote self-acceptance, and body positivity.
In a world where unrealistic beauty ideals are often promoted, body image can become a sensitive topic. It is important to cultivate a healthy and positive body image, embracing the diversity of body types, sizes, and appearances.
This involves nurturing self-acceptance, celebrating our unique, and recognizing the beauty in all bodies. To help elevate positivity, body image quotes play a significant role for people to develop a positive relationship with their bodies.
These quotes, derived from various sources such as activists, writers, and other figures who have a strong body positivity. Through their wise words, we gain inspiration that remind us of the importance of self-love and self-care.
Browse the following compilation of body image quotes and celebrate your unique beauty. See how the quotes transform your attitude that our worth is not solely determined by our physical appearance.
Positive body image quotes
In order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.
Portia de Rossi
Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.
Geneen Roth
Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its imperfections, real or perceived.
Golda Poretsky
When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.
Geneen Roth
We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.
Jess C. Scott
The reality was my life wasn’t miserable because I was curvy; I was miserable because I thought I’d be happier if I were thinner.
Brittany Gibbons
[T]here’s a double standard where it’s ok to talk s**t about a dude’s body… I’m happy with my body and who I am and other kids who are built like me and thinner than me should be able to feel the same way.
Grant Gustin
I’m constantly reminding myself it’s not about my thighs: It’s about my commitment and my happiness level.
Kristin Bell
I don’t really care what I look like that much, and I think women out there should just be happy with the way they look. They shouldn’t really try to conform to any kind of stereotype. Just be happy and hopefully healthy.
Rebel Wilson
You are beautiful when you are happy.
Oscar Wilde
Inspirational body image quotes
These inspiring body image quotes inspire us to rejecting harmful beauty standards.
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Naomi Wolf
Women and their bodies! The most abusive and toxic of relationships.
Liane Moriarty
Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
Oprah Winfrey
Exterior beauty, without the depth of a kind soul is merely decoration.
Vanessa Quintero
The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you’re too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face.
Oprah Winfrey
When you’re somebody like myself, in order to get around and be attractive, you have to develop something, you have to learn something, you have to do something. So you become a bit more interesting.
Iris Apfel
A good 2,000 to 5,000 times a week, we receive images of bodies enhanced by digital manipulation. These images convey an idea of a body which does not exist in the real world.
Susie Orbach
When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.
Oprah Winfrey
Health is different for every body at a different size.
Crystal Renn
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification.
Naomi Wolf
Negative body image quotes
Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look.
Yancy Lael
There is nothing more boring and fruitless than a woman lamenting the fact her stomach is round. Feed yourself. Literally. The sort of people worthy of your love will love you more for this.
Cheryl Strayed
Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
Is “fat” really the worst thing a human being can be? Is “fat” worse than “vindictive,” “jealous,” “shallow,” “vain,” “boring,” or “cruel?” Not to me.
J.K. Rowling
Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.
Cheryl Strayed
The self–esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self–worth saves lives.
Antonella Gambotto–Burke
We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.
Naomi Wolf
Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state.
Jess C. Scott
When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels.
Geneen Roth
I never felt pretty. I don’t feel pretty now. I’m not a pretty person. I don’t like pretty. So I don’t feel badly. And I think it worked out well, because I found that all the girls I know who got by on their looks, as time went on and they faded, they were nothing. And they were very disappointed.
Iris Apfel
Empowering body image quotes
Embrace the power of body positive with these empowering body image quotes, promoting a healthy and inclusive perspective on beauty and self-worth.
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
Carrie Arnold
There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Life is so much more beautiful than a number on a scale.
Tess Munster
This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you’re too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face.
Oprah Winfrey
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease.
Dalai Lama
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.
Epictetus
You look how you look.
Jennifer Lawrence
Life is too short to spend another at war with yourself.
Ritu Ghatourey
A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement.
Jess C Scott
You all can judge my body all you want, but at the end of the day it’s MY body. I love it and I’m comfortable in my own skin.
Simone Biles
Confidence body image quotes
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind.
Bobby Fischer
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display – the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions.
Helene Cixous
Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.
Helene Cixous
Body confidence is a journey, not a destination. Some days are gonna feel good, some days are going to feel worse.
Zoe Mallett
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
Geneen Roth
View your body as something God has entrusted into your care.
Jim George
You have to trust your body to take care of you.
A. J. Langer
I’ve always found that beauty and confidence are synonymous. If you feel confident, that’s what people see.
Cindy Crawford
When we do the inner healing work and reclaim our calm and confidence, it is possible to rise into the fierce love, life and business you dreamed of.
Juliette Mullen
You can wear your body well if you’ve got confidence.
Davina McCall
Women body image quotes
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Naomi Wolf
I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
Sandra Bullock
And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.’
Nayyirah Waheed
Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
Naomi Wolf
When we trust our bodies to tell us about hunger and fullness, exhaustion and energy, they communicate everything we could ever need to know about how to survive and how to thrive.
Sarah Hays Coomer
I wish I could tell my younger self that she was always more than a body. She always had more to offer the world than weight loss and flat abs. So much more.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
It’s my choice to be beautiful. It’s my choice to be ugly. And it’s my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
Virginia Petrucci
It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving – even revering – my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self–esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead.
Monica Heisey
Success means looking younger every year, as the women in the gym seem to. Success means regulating the body: controlling hungers, desires, ageing and emissions.
Susie Orbach
Women have face–lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi Wolf
Body image quotes short
Challenge harmful beauty ideals with these enlightening body image quotes. They inspiring you to celebrate your unique attributes and reject unrealistic expectations.
Rubenesque: the word for masterpiece curves. Screw you, unsalted rice cakes.
Christine Heppermann
Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone.
Golda Poretsky
Health makes good propaganda.
Naomi Wolf
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.
Cheri K. Erdman
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn Monroe
Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina.
Emme
I’ve learnt to appreciate my body, because it’s taken me all the way here and will take me to the end.
Clémentine Desseaux
May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.
Kimber Simpkins
I wasn’t put on this earth to look good.
Charli Howard
Beauty myth body image quotes
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever–receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
Naomi Wolf
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside.
Naomi Wolf
Women must not be blamed for choosing short–term beauty “fixes” that harm our long–term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
Naomi Wolf
The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover. If he appreciates her face and body because it is hers, that is next to worthless.
Naomi Wolf
An idealogy that makes women feel “worth less” was urgently needed to counteract the way feminism had begun to make us feel worth more. This does not require a conspiracy; merely an atmosphere.
Naomi Wolf
The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth.
Naomi Wolf
The beauty myth keeps a gap of fantasy between men and women. That gap is made with mirrors; no law of nature supports it. It keeps us spending vast sums of money and looking distractedly around us, but its smoke and reflection interfere with our freedom to be sexually ourselves.
Naomi Wolf
If public discourse were really concerned with women’s health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.
Naomi Wolf
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.
Naomi Wolf
Quotes about body image
Find inspiration in these insighful body image quotes. They remind us that true beauty lies in self-acceptance and to embracing our imperfections.
Weight loss is not the key to your dreams. The truth is there is no lock and the door is flimsy.
Golda Poretsky
Food is a wonderful source of pleasure–but it will get you into trouble if it’s the only source of pleasure you have in your life.
Linda Bacon
After years of neuroticism, I’d finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn’t ignored me.
Helen Brown
Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I’m really good looking. Then other times I think my body’s all wrong.
Alex Sanchez
It wasn’t a perfect body. It was chafed and scarred and bloody. But it was them. God, it was them.
Winter Holmes
We can turn off the twenty–four–hour coverage and take a walk and a deep breath and return home to wrap our arms around our kids, pets, lovers, or friends.
Sarah Hays Coomer
We need to listen for distress signals from our own bodies, as well as from those around us, and have systems in place to ease the pain.
Sarah Hays Coomer
Wear what makes you feel like yourself.
Sarah Hays Coomer
If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.
Naomi Wolf
As a middle–aged woman I was pretty much invisible anyway. To pass unnoticed through an image–obsessed society is surprisingly liberating.
Helen Brown
Stereotypes of body image quotes
Uncover these body image quotes that aim to dismantle societal pressures.
How can an “ideal” be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?
Naomi Wolf
It is illegal to claim that something grows hair, or makes you taller, or restores virility, if it does not.
Naomi Wolf
Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a good body.
Golda Poretsky
Are we really going to spend our whole lives like this, feeling the wrong shape and the wrong weight in the wrong skin?
Emma Woolf
Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women’s bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever.
Naomi Wolf
Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable.
Golda Poretsky
There are seven billion bodies in the world, and I got this one. It may not be the best one, but it’s far from being the worst.
Kimberly Rae Miller
Your body didn’t do anything wrong.
Golda Poretsky
What’s fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body.
Golda Poretsky
Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Naomi Wolf
Final thoughts
These body image quotes encourage us to let go of comparison and nurture self-compassion. They inspire us to reject harmful body image narratives perpetuated by society and recognize that beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and appearances.
By incorporating body image quotes into our lives, we empower ourselves to embrace the magnificence of diversity. We learn to appreciate and love our bodies for the incredible vessels they are, honoring them for the strength, resilience, and beauty they possess.
Hope that you have enjoyed exploring our collection of body image quotes. If they resonate with you on a personal level, share them with others. By spreading the messages of self-love, you contribute to a movement of acceptance and empowerment.
In the end, remember that your worth is not determined by how you look, but by the incredible person you are. Your body is unique, beautiful, and let your radiant spirit shine as a beacon of encouragement for others.