"When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, befo..."
- Margaret Kennedy
"Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts"
- Michael Biondi
"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 ..."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
"May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own."
- Kimber Simpkins
"She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet."
- Jefferson Smith
"Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To t..."
- Zadie Smith
"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. Western m..."
- Antonella Gambotto-Burke
"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
"There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin."
- Jen Hatmaker
"I've learned that in order to be an efficacious woman with any sort of spiritual power, I first have to love my body."
- Ashley Mae Hoiland