Jennie Runk quotes

“There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.”
-- Jennie Runk

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“You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.”
-- Jennie Runk

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“The biggest thing for women to keep in mind is you can't ever let someone define beauty for you. Look in the mirror and say that this is my definition of perfection.”
-- Jennie Runk

Source : "A Frank Discussion About Body Image, Dieting, and Feminism With Plus-Size Model Jennie Runk". Interview with Marisa Meltzer, www.elle.com. January 13, 2014.

#Mirrors Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Just focus on being the best possible version of yourself and quit worrying about your thighs, there's nothing wrong with them.”
-- Jennie Runk

Source : "Jennie Runk: My life as a 'plus-size' model" by Jennie Runk, www.bbc.co.uk. May 15, 2013.

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“There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.”
-- Jennie Runk

#Hatred Quotes #Being Different Quotes #Body Types Quotes

“Within the fashion industry, being on shoots and working with agencies and other models, it's never been an issue being anything other than straight. It's so accepted within this industry. Out of every community that I'm a part of, or have been in, the fashion industry has been the most accepting. To the point where it was celebrated. I'd be on set talking about my girlfriend and someone would say "Oh, you're a lesbian! That's amazing." It's such a warm, welcoming community in that sense.”
-- Jennie Runk

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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“The more we as a society make women's sex lives seem like a secret, the more hostile that becomes. Because when you get into that cycle of thinking, no matter what you're doing, you feel shameful about it, because there's no way to talk about it. I think that through talking about it and sharing stories you realize the things you may have felt shameful about are totally normal and totally OK. Everyone's normal in their own way. You can only come to that realization if you're having these conversations, and learning what normal is for other people.”
-- Jennie Runk

Source : Source: www.elle.com

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions”

“I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?”

Source : "Hitler's Table Talk". Die Bormann Vermerke: Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of Martin Bormann, 1953.

“Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.”

“Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.”

“You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.”

“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.”

“It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.”

“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go”

“For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.”