Latest Quotes

“Whatever you do, never chase a man. Why? Because it will make him emotionally lazy and he will feel like he doesn't have to do anything to meet your emotional needs.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“There are a lot of things in this world that you, as a woman, could be afraid of, but your man should not be one of them.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“You need a man to be upfront and honest with you from the beginning, about his intentions. The right man will be; however, the wrong man will let months or even years go by before he finally gets up the courage to tell you that he's not ready to commit.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Most of us know that the media tell us our bodies are imperfect - too fat, to smelly, too wrinkled, or too soft. And, even though we may know it’s horse shit, these messages still seep into our brains and mess with our self-esteem. In a media-saturated country where most images of women and men have…”

— Victoria Vantoch, By Victoria Vantoch - The Threesome Handbook - A Practical Guide to Sleeping with Three (Swinging & Swingers) (6/28/07)

“As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn’t a particular hair color or a particular body type; it’s the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better.”

— Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

“Any man who makes you feel as if you have to change who you are, as a person, to be with him, is a man that will leave you as soon as he meets the woman he's trying to make you out to be.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way”

— Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body

“Value yourself for what the media doesn't. Your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.”

— Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

“A strong woman doesn't need a man to take care of her. What she needs is a man secure enough to understand that and not be intimidated by it.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Smart People Don't Diet

“He could have the right face, the right smile, with the right job, making the right amount of money, but if he doesn't love and respect you, he's still the wrong man for you.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains m…”

— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“When he texts you, he's thinking about you. When he calls you, he misses you. When he shows up, he wants you. When he suddenly stops doing all of the above for you, he's doing it for someone else.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks. 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. This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, t…”

— Oprah Winfrey, Pursuing Perfection

“When a man tells you that he is not ready to commit, believe him the first time. You can't convince him that he is ready. You will only be fooling yourself.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?”

— Camryn Manheim, Wake Up, I'm Fat!

“Most men know what it would take to make their woman happy. They're just too stubborn, too egotistical or too lazy to do it.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Ginika told her that ‘fat’ in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like ‘stupid’ or ‘bastard,’ and not a mere description liked ‘short’ or ‘tall.’ So, she had banished the word ‘fat’ from her vocabulary…She said the word ‘fat’ slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about…”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“If he changes the way he treats you when he's around his friends, he either hasn't been keeping it real with you or he hasn't been keeping it real with them.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man