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Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ...

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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe...

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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...

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Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally th...

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Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into...

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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete ove...

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Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany's

Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why ...

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I’m a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that’s not what I think of as sexy.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, ...

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The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

In every age a general misdirection of what may be called sexual "taste"... [is] produce[d by the de...

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I was back in disgust. I stood in the centre of the big room, naked, letting the heat strike me from...

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