Mary J. Blige Quotes

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have a better life.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through.

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

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

I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.