Body Dysmorphic Quotes

#1. You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

Brian Cuban

#3. Wisdom speaks with a silent tongue.

Matthew Skelton

#4. If somebody is disrespecting somebody, we should step in - even at the risk of getting slugged over the head.

Letitia Baldrige

#5. Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.

Padma Lakshmi

#6. She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to ten or twelve pages: Lilia, Gabriel, Anna, Michelle. In every town her name was different.

Emily St. John Mandel

#7. She was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.

Margaret Atwood

#8. You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted

T. S. Eliot

#9. In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

Mary Pipher

#10. Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

Susan Estrich

#11. But if I could choose how and when I wanted to die, I would want to be an eighty-year-old man shot by a jealous young husband who had caught me in bed with his teenage wife.

Nelson DeMille