Care Quote by Hippocrates

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those…

— Susie Orbach

It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or…

— Miranda Kerr

“When fatness was an exception, it was part of the canon of beauty. Now that leanness is an exception, its symptoms are canonized.”

— Josip Novakovich

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should…

— Martha Beck

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an…

— Abraham Maslow

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”

— Roxane Gay

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than…

— Thomas Carlyle

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”

— Harvey Cushing

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

— Dolly Parton

“In the very same books that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are and how…

— Ruby Tandoh

“Not only did I imagine myself as different from plastic surgery patients, I also thought that plastic surgery patients were different from me. I…

— Laurie Essig