Mary J. Blige Quotes

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I've worked hard on myself.

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.

Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.

There were times I wouldn't leave my room for weeks and sometimes missed school because I hated how people would look at me. But my older sister helped me find the positive: She used to show me pictures of Alek Wek to say, 'See! You can be a model if you want!'

We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.

It's OK to have up days. It's OK to have down days. But especially remember it's OK to talk to people and let them know you're not OK. Don't think it's something you have to keep to yourself to fit in or to be normal. There's no such thing as normal.

Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.

I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

I started to speak about my acne struggles on social media and in interviews, and people responded really well to it.

We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.

I hope that I can be a role model and positive influence to anyone else who is struggling with insecurities within themselves.

Anything that we can do to help men be more confident, I think that's going to be a net positive.

There was a warm and encouraging environment at home. My self-loathing and neuroticism are not because of my upbringing.

I find it very cool when girls hit on me because, for a long time, I was a fat kid. I became sexy at a later stage.