Francesca Martínez

“Their sole purpose is to make you feel bad about your life because you’re not rich and famous.”

— Francesca Martínez

“Eventually, I managed to peel it off, bit by bit, scratching at each piece until it was finally gone.”

— Francesca Martínez

“Reading celebrity magazines is like eating poo. Don’t do it: it’s bad for your health.”

— Francesca Martínez

“Our culture has the power to convince skinny people they are fat, young people they are old, old people they can be…

— Francesca Martínez

“It’s a shame that much of the media have emphatically refused, for a very long time, to represent diversity, because they play…

— Francesca Martínez

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

— Francesca Martinez

“It’s inescapable – we live in a world where what’s seen as successful, fashionable or beautiful is heavily shaped by a power…

— Francesca Martínez

“My disability, it transpired, was the least of my problems. The real question became: how do I defend myself against the constant…

— Francesca Martínez

“I’m not quite sure what a normal life is. Surely everyone’s life is normal to them?”

— Francesca Martínez

“I can’t help noticing that the few people I’ve met in my life who haven’t ‘suffered’ much have also been monumentally boring.”

— Francesca Martínez

Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep

— Francesca Martinez

“And, in order to make us buy things we don’t need, advertisers have to make us believe that we need them. Desperately.…

— Francesca Martínez

“Happiness is always one more purchase away, one more promotion away, one more investment away, but numerous studies show that once a…

— Francesca Martínez

“Now, I think of fashion as the ultimate mode of conformity.”

— Francesca Martínez

We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as…

— Francesca Martinez

“It’s pretty much impossible to expect impressionable teenagers to react positively to difference when mainstream values obsessively promote a religious adherence to…

— Francesca Martínez

“Society might favour able-bodied babies, but it is massively guilty of disabling those healthy babies once they are old enough to imbibe…

— Francesca Martínez

How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.

— Francesca Martinez

“This aspirational culture and body fascism promotes worship of ‘perfection’ and fear of anything else.”

— Francesca Martínez

“The image of a giant Unhappiness Machine came into my mind – a machine designed to pump out millions of dissatisfied consumers,…

— Francesca Martínez

“It’s pretty much impossible to expect impressionable teenagers to react positively to difference when mainstream values obsessively promote a religious adherence to…

— Francesca Martínez

“More often than not, labels dehumanise people by reducing them to lazy stereotypes.”

— Francesca Martínez