“Just walking around today at the beach helped me realize that it’s not a bikini contest. Every body tells a different story. And it’s awesome that we’re all shaped so differently!”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“I used to be terrified to go to pool parties or beach gatherings. I NEVER wanted to show off my body because I never thought it was good enough. I did not like my reflection in the mirror. I’d come up with excuses like 'I’m on my period' so I could avoid having to show myself in a swimsuit. But how…”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“...don’t let anyone make you feel bad for wanting to have self control and don’t let anyone make you feel bad for wanting to let loose. Doesn’t matter. Your body, your choice.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“Just found out I'm genetically destined to be overweight. That explains a lot.”— Cassey Ho, twitter.com
“If you think about it, water is the majority shareholder of your body.”— Maggie Stiefvater, twitter.com
“A naked woman is neither empowering or oppressed divorced from the context. Women do not exist in a vacuum, nor behind glass, nor as a metaphor. A woman is naked while alone in her shower minding her own business, and she is naked in fetishizing media made by men for men. She is born naked, because…”— aawb, aawb.tumblr.com
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image…”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impu…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“I don’t want you to fall in love with my body, I want you to fall in love with who I am. I want you to fall in love with my mind, with the way I think.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.”— Kurt Vonnegut, goodreads.com