Body image quotes from the women who know best.

If there’s one thing celebs know, it’s dealing with incessant criticism. With the 24/7 buzz these ladies receive, consider them the grand poobahs of dealing with—and dare we say conquering—body image issues.

Below, 17 refreshing body image quotes to bookmark for a rainy day (in front of the mirror):

1. “I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, ‘You can’t wear anything sleeveless or strapless.’ And all of a sudden I was like, ‘What if I just didn’t send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it?’ And now I’m more comfortable in clothes than ever.” -Drew Barrymore
2. “Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features. Everyone has them.” -Demi Lovato
3. “For young women, I would say, don’t worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women too, what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now, I don’t.” -Meryl Streep
4. “There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don’t beat myself up over it.” -Mindy Kaling
   
5. “I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.” -Emma Watson
6. “I am not a sample size, and I’m okay with that.” -Jordin Sparks
7. “You’re a human being, you live once, and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.” -Emma Stone
8. “My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.” -Lena Dunham
9. “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.” -Cindy Crawford
10. “I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.” -Adele
11. “If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet,’ I’m like, ‘You can go fuck yourself.'” -Jennifer Lawrence
12. “To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini—put it on and stay strong.” -Jennifer Love Hewitt
13. “I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis other women for being proud of theirs!” -Christina Aguilera
14. “You have to stand up and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you’re the one with the problem!'” -Jennifer Lopez
15. “I tried being anorexic for four hours… then I was like, ‘I need some bagels.'” -Kat Dennings
16. “People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.” -Salma Hayek
17. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” -Marilyn Monroe

What are your favorite body image quotes?

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Let’s face it: Shoshanna Shapiro makes life worth living.

From the moment Caroline was carried to the hospital in the season finale of “Girls”, I’ve been foaming at the mouth for new episodes—and there’s no one I miss more than Shoshanna Shapiro, our favorite least virginy virgin.

What’s not to love? From her infamous “Crackcident” to her brutal honesty at the beach house to the fact that she’s now dating Jason Ritter… I mean, Scott… she’s quickly become the show’s unexpected superstar.

As we patiently wait for season 5—while bingeing the crap out of our HBO Go subscriptions—here’s a highlight reel of Shoshanna moments that prove she’s the cheese to our macaroni (plus, she talks so fast we could really use the double-take):

1. “Oh. Em. Effing. Gee.”

2. “I may be deflowered, but I am not devalued.”

3. “I will never be bored as long as there’s Halloween.”

4. “I’m so happy to see you I could murder you.”

5. “I can’t be surrounded by your negativity while I’m trying to grow into a fully formed woman.”

6. “My life is a mess and I know that was a personal choice but maybe it’s time for me to un-choose that choice.”

7. “I’m really tired of being insulted even when it comes before a compliment.”

8. “I’m socializing! I’m sorry if that’s not working for you, my social butterfly-ness.”

9. “Umm we need to find out every possible detail about this rando hussy immediately.”

10. “Oh my god, don’t tell my mom. Don’t even tell me.”

11. “Seriously, that duck tasted like a used condom and I want to forget about it.”

12. “Basically it’s been a very sexually adventurous time for me. I’m alternating nights of freedom with nights of academic focus. So at the end of my senior year, I will have had both experiences while also still being super well prepared for the professional world.”

13. “Everyone’s a dumb whore.”

14. “Umm, it’s butt, dick and pussy.”

What are your favorite Shoshanna Shapiro moments?

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TV shows come and go, but these fierce quotes from our favorite female characters will never go out of style.

1. “I’m saying, in the spirit of science, what is that little skank’s problem?” -Amy Farrah Fowler
2. “It’s one thing to say you’re gonna let go, it’s another to actually do it – to loosen your grip and let yourself fall.” -Felicity Porter
3. “My gut tells me everything I need to know.” -Olivia Pope
4. “I can be flexible. As long as everything is exactly the way I want it, I’m totally flexible.” -Lorelai Gilmore
5. “You say potato, I say vodka.” -Karen Walker
6. “I guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies.” -Leslie Knope
7. “I’m an individual. And I feel how I feel when I feel it.” -Hannah Horvath
8. “These men. Constantly building them up, and for what? Dinner and jewelry? Who cares?” -Joan Holloway
9. “You call it crazy. I call it winning.” -Annalise Keating
10. “Eeeewwwww.” -Lucy Ricardo
11. “I am often the statistical deviation.” -Maxine Gray
12. “Fine, judge all you want, but married a lesbian, left a man at the altar, fell in love with a gay ice dancer, threw a girl’s wooden leg in the fire, LIVE IN A BOX.” -Monica Geller
13. “I just need to ride out this minor humiliation until I find my Kanye.” -Mindy Lahiri
14. “Men are such idiots, even the smart ones.” -Virginia Johnson
15. “By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses.” -Piper Chapman
16. “Ugh, couples.” -Jessica Day
17. “I am laughing, just not externally.” -Cristina Yang
18. “I like irons, but I love fire.” -Claire Underwood
19. “I’m not the one who got it wrong. I’m the only one who got it right.” -Carrie Mathison
20. “I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.” -Paris Gellar
21. “My vagina waits for no man.” -Samantha Jones
22. “I’m an experienced woman. I’ve been around… Well, all right, I might not’ve been around, but I’ve been… nearby.” -Mary Richards
23. “Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!” -Liz Lemon
24. “Okay, I think this will make more sense if I get more wine.” -Alicia Florrick

Who are your favorite female characters on TV?

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For those of you going through “Orange in the New Black” withdrawal, here are 23 of the best quotes from the show.

I don’t know about you, but I’m already jonesing for new episodes of “Orange Is The New Black” – a dramedy about Piper Chapman, who’s serving a year in prison for drug trafficking (just in case there’s someone out there who has yet to binge-watch).

One of the reasons the show is so ah-amazing is because of its great writing – more specifically, its great one-liners. OITNB is by far one of the most quotable shows online, and while it’s impossible to list all of the best quotes, I’ve managed to whittle the list down to 23. (Don’t mention it.)

To keep you from foaming at the mouth until next summer’s season 3 debut, here are 23 of the best quotes from “Orange Is The New Black”:

1. “Maybe I’ll Pinterest. I hear that’s a thing.” -Morello
2. “It’s so disappointing being underestimated as you age.” -Irma
3. “Do not defend your boner to me right now.” -Piper
4. “She a lesbian. They lesbianing together.” -Pennsatucky
5. “Love is not an excuse.” -Red
6. “Lesbian request denied.” -Healy
7. “I always miss you until you’re here.” -Nicky
8. “I am feeling so single today.” -Boo
9. “I threw my pie for you.” -Crazy Eyes
10. “You seem so calm. Are you a murderer?” -Brook
11. “By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to mensies.” -Piper
12. “Ugh. People.” -Red
13. “Lesbians can be very dangerous. It’s the testosterone.” -Healy
14. “You don’t go Jessica Simpson when you’ve got Rihanna.” -Morello
15. “I want the kind of job where I could just chill, you know?” -Poussey
16. “Bitches gots to learn.” -Piper
17. “Another layer of icing on a shit cake doesn’t make it taste good.” -Nicky
18. “Husbands are overrated. They’re as useless as children.” -Red
19. “It’s a metaphor, you potato with eyes!” -Pennsatucky
20. “I like privacy, but not alone privacy.” -Nicky
21. “All problems are boring until they’re your own.” -Red
22. “This is more depressing than a Tori Amos cover band.” -Boo
23. “This year, I’m loving someone who deserves me. Me.” -Crazy Eyes

What do you think are the best quotes from OITNB?

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37 inspirational quotes on creativity to feel your soul.

1. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -Kurt Vonnegut

2. You don’t have to be “a creative” to be creative. –Drory Ben-Menachem

3. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. -James Russell Lowell

4. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. -John Updike

5. Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables. -Bruce Hershensohm

6. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. -Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein 

8. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -Jonh Steinbeck

9. True creativity often starts where language ends. -Arthur Koestler 

10. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.  -Carl Jung

11. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. -Pablo Picasso

12. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. –Dee Hock

13. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. -Steve Jobs

14. Dance first, think later. -Samuel Beckett

15. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams

16. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. -Marianne Williamson

17. Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -Anne Sexton

18. Nothing is impossible. The world itself says “I’m Possible”! -Audrey Hepburn

19. Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something. -Nicholas Burroughs

20. Creativity is intelligence having fun. -Albert Einstein

21. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -Marc Chagall

22. The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen. -Carl Ally

23. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. -Ray Bradbury

24. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois

25. Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. -Salvador Dali

26. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent van Gogh

27. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. –Ayn Rand

28. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. -Edward de Bono

29. You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. -Jack London

30. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. -William Plomer

31. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. -Osho

32. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. -John Cage

33. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -Joseph Chilton Pierce

34. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou

35. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. –Gerald G. Jampolsky

36. When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. -Linda Naiman

37. Find something only you can say. -James Dickey

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