Quote by Margaret Atwood

“I am self-conscious beyond measure. I am intensely and constantly preoccupied with my body in the world because I know what people think and…

— Roxane Gay

“I was never one to care about how I looked on the outside. That wasn't the real me anyway. Not that I didn't appreciate…

— Christine Zolendz

“ It's not that I think I'm ugly, I just don't think about what I look like. I don't live out there. If I…

— Francesca Zappia

“Imagine... You feel great about yourself, but when you look down, your body is the opposite sex from who you know yourself to be.…

— Jamison Green

“Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.”

— Kaye Gibbons

“There is nothing more beautiful than watching your body being taken over by what I’m doing to you,”

— Aurora Rose Reynolds

“There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at.”

— Doris Lessing

“When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on…

— Iris Murdoch

“It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside”

— Carolyn Mackler

“Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Most of us have these versions of ourselves that terrify us. We have these imperfect bodies we don't quite know how to cope with.…

— Roxane Gay

“For a girl who hated looking at herself, I was at risk of becoming vain.”

— Leigh Bardugo